Reprint
Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese
Edited by
September 2024
256 pages
- ISBN 978-3-7258-2062-7 (Hardback)
- ISBN 978-3-7258-2061-0 (PDF)
This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
This Special Issue brings together 12 articles featuring state-of-the-art research on language variation and change in Portuguese. The data derive from multiple corpora of Portuguese, representing different regional and historical varieties: (contemporary) Angolan, Brazilian, European, Mozambican, Santomean, and Uruguayan Portuguese, as well as Medieval and Classical Portuguese. This Special Issue brings to the forefront analyses of understudied phenomena in Portuguese and discusses the contributions of the findings to current debates in theoretical linguistics.