Portuguese grammar

Usage-based perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-100526-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

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Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language. To help improve the linguistic understanding of this pluricentric language, the present volume brings together ten studies about different grammatical phenomena observed in Portuguese varieties – from suffixation to intercalated temporal clauses and non-concatenative verbal inflection, among other topics. Focusing on two main axes – usage and cognition –, these studies draw on the theoretical frameworks of Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, but build a cohesive whole insofar as they all offer usage-based language approaches. By presenting an overview of recent research on Portuguese and its varieties, the book paves the way for the inclusion of Portuguese in the set of Neo-Latin languages best known to the general public.

Zielgruppe

Linguists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abraçado, Jussara

Gonçalves, Carlos Alexandre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Jussara Abraçado, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói; Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.