Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics / / ed. by Johannes Kabatek, Albert Wall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Altman, Cristina,; Alves, Michele C. dos S.,; Andrade Aguilera, Vanderci de,; Battisti, Elisa,; Baxter, Alan,; Beline Mendes, Ronald,; Carvalhinhos, Patricia,; Castilho da Costa, Alessandra,; Castilho, Ataliba T. de,; Eduardo Viaro, Mário,; Fiorin, José Luiz,; Galves, Charlotte,; Gonçalves, Carlos Alexandre,; Graça Krieger, Maria da,; Hora, Dermeval da,; Ilari, Rodolfo,; Kabatek, Johannes,; Lipski, John M.,; Lobo, Tânia,; Lopes Machado Filho, Américo Venâncio,; Lucchesi, Dante,; Miguel Basso, Renato,; Noll, Volker,; Oliveira, Marilza de,; Paixão de Sousa, Maria Clara,; Reich, Uli,; Roberta Longhin, Sanderléia,; Santos Lopes, Célia Regina dos,; Teixeira, Elisângela N.,; Wall, Albert,
• HerausgeberIn: Kabatek, Johannes,; Wall, Albert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 629 p.)

This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spoken Portuguese”, and the project “Towards a History of Brazilian Portuguese” (PHPB), among others. Further chapters of high contemporary interest and relevance include the study of linguistic policies and psycholinguistics. The manual offers theoretical insights of general interest, not least since many chapters present the linguistic data in the light of a combination of formal, functional, generative and sociolinguistic approaches. This rather unique feature of the volume is achieved by the double authorship of some of the relevant chapters, thus bringing together and synthesizing different perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- 0 Introduction: the state of the art in Brazilian Portuguese linguistics -- 1 Brazilian Portuguese linguistics: an overview -- 2 The social history of Brazilian Portuguese -- 3 The history of linguistic contact underlying Brazilian Portuguese -- 4 Historical phonetics and phonology -- 5 Historical morphology -- 6 Historical syntax -- 7 The history of the lexicon -- 8 The debate on Brazilian and European Portuguese -- 9 Dialectology and linguistic geography -- 10 Sociolinguistics -- 11 Brazilian Portuguese: contemporary language contacts -- 12 Sound-related aspects of Brazilian Portuguese -- 13 Morphology -- 14 Syntax -- 15 Lexicon -- 16 On the history of semantic studies in Brazil -- 17 Spoken vs. written language -- 18 Onomastics and toponomastics -- 19 Linguistic policy and the orthographic agreement -- 20 Psycholinguistic studies: language acquisition and processing -- Index