Manual de Linguística Portuguesa by Ana Maria Martins; Ernestina CarrilhoCall Number: PC 5015 Man 2016
ISBN: 9783110374483
Publication Date: 2016
This handbook presents the current state of research in Portuguese linguistics, combining panoramic approaches and detailed analyses of selected topics. The volume combines diachronic and synchronic data, standard and dialectal Portuguese, adult grammar and L1 acquisition, exploring characteristic grammatical properties of Portuguese using the methods and theories of contemporary linguistics. The overview chapters cover areas of research that have seen significant development in Portuguese linguistics in recent decades (e.g. languages in contact, prosody, computational lexicon, forensic phonetics). The chapters dedicated to syntax, semantics and phonology offer new empirical data and current analyses of aspects of Portuguese such as the inflected infinitive, the placement pattern of clitic pronouns, the conjunctive, the reduction of unstressed vowels, as well as more recent topics such as null subjects, verb complexes, the responsive system and some dialectal phenomena. Overall, this is a unique collection of articles, specifically designed as a Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics for the academic context. The authors are leading specialists in the subjects studied.