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The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
"The Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018.
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| Colección: | Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil; Earlier studies; Overview of the book; Final remarks; References; 1. Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. The Afro-Brazilian continuum on the Brazilian side; 3. The African side of the Afro-Brazilian continuum; 4. The African basis of the Afro-Brazilian continuum
- 5. The dynamics of the Afro-Brazilian continuum6. Final remarks; Acknowledgement; References; 2. Research on L2 varieties of European languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 3. Critical issues in the grammatical description of L2 varieties; 4. From descriptive to formal grammars of L2 varieties; 4.1 A descriptive grammar of MP; 4.2 A formal grammar of MP :; Case study 1
- Goal/beneficiary arguments; Case study 2
- Theme argument; Case study 3
- Locative/directional arguments; 4.3 Conclusions; 5. Potential of formal grammars for the recognition of L2 varieties; Acknowledgement
- 5. Nativisation of Portuguese in Mozambique5.1 Mozambican Portuguese as a continuum of varieties; 5.2 Sociolinguistic factors of variation of Mozambican Portuguese; 6. Final remarks; References; 5. Angolan Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. A brief sociolinguistic history of Portuguese in Angola; 3. The grammar of AP: A bird's eye view; 3.1 Lexicon; 3.2 Phonetics, prosody and phonology; 3.3 Morphosyntax; 4. Final remarks: AP, partial restructuring and the Afro-Brazilian continuum; Acknowledgement; References; 6. Cabo Verde; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. The community profile
- 3.1 Bilingualism: Mother tongue and second language3.2 Use of both languages by domains and their functions; 3.3 Linguistic attitudes: Language of identity and culture; 3.4 CV vs. PT: Social relationship and changing perspectives; 4. Language policy: Current status and priority measures; References; 7. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. Prepositions in the complementation of motion verbs; 2.1 Directional NPs in African varieties of Portuguese; 2.1.1 Innovations in Mozambican Portuguese