Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language

Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language
Author: Karina Veronica Molsing
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261504

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely dedicated to Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL). This volume showcases the breadth of research being carried out on topics ranging from the acquisition of aspects from the main language modules (syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics) to applied perspectives involving corpus-based approaches and experimental methodologies. Moreover, we present studies addressing a variety of learning contexts and learner types. The target audience includes researching scholars with a background in second language acquisition studies interested in learning more about the acquisition of Portuguese as an Additional Language from linguistic perspectives.

Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL)

Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL)
Author: Cristina Becker Lopes Perna
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2022-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1666914398

This book showcases the breadth of research-informed pedagogical approaches for Portuguese as an Additional/Foreign Language (PAL/PFL) carried out on topics ranging from the development of specific skills in PAL, to language awareness in PAL and innovative pedagogical approaches in PAL, involving new and experimental methodologies.

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics
Author: W. Leo Wetzels
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119096766

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics
Author: Johannes Kabatek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110405954

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.

New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Author: Talia Bugel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261407

The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This volume fills a crucial void in the field of Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics by introducing the latest production in the discipline of attitudes toward Spanish, Spanish sign language, Portuguese, Guarani and Papiamentu around the world, from South America and the Caribbean to the United States, Spain and Japan. The studies presented in this collection – a variety of sociolinguistic scenarios and methodological approaches – will make an important contribution to theoretical discussions on linguistic attitudes, specifically in the domains of language integration through education, language policy, and language maintenance. This book is intended for sociolinguists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities as well as graduate students enrolled in sociolinguistics courses.

Minimalist Inquiries Into Child and Adult Language Acquisition

Minimalist Inquiries Into Child and Adult Language Acquisition
Author: Acrisio Pires
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2009
Genre: Bilingualism
ISBN: 3110215349

The volume is a collection of original articles that present new research on first and second language acquisition from the perspective of current generative linguistics, using a detailed case study of Portuguese as a first, second and third language. The book focuses on studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition of syntax and its interfaces with morphology, with semantics/pragmatics, and language change. The volume includes chapters on the child and adult acquisition of European and Brazilian Portuguese, and several chapters that also compare and contrast the two varieties from these different perspectives.

The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese

The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
Author: J. Clancy Clements
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 052183175X

Analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties. Clements demonstrates that grammar formation not only takes place in parent-to-child communication, but also in adult-to-adult communication. He argues that cultural identity and cognitive abilities are important factors in language formation and maintenance.

Portuguese

Portuguese
Author: Milton M. Azevedo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521805155

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Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese

Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese
Author: Albert Wall
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264651

Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate analysis of these forms as well as the establishment of a solid empirical basis for future research. The book goes further than previous accounts in also taking into consideration the phonetic-phonological dimension, showing the advantages of a more comprehensive account. The empirical section outlines an innovative approach in which different methods and data types are combined and focuses on the underresearched definite / specific / referential uses and interpretations of bare singulars. The book also addresses the traditional topics in the study of bare nominals – genericity, the mass/count distinction, NP-internal plural agreement, the NP/DP distinction, and syntax-semantics-phonology interface questions – in the light of the new findings.

Global Portuguese

Global Portuguese
Author: Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317633040

This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese ‘a language.’ Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is increasingly internationalized, used as the official language in four continents (in ten countries) and which has come to play a relevant role in the so-called linguistic market on the basis of the geopolitical transformations in a multipolar world. The book covers a wide range of social, political and historical contexts in which ‘Portuguese’ is used (in Brazil, Canada, East-Timor, England, Portugal, Mozambique and Uruguay), and considers diverse linguistic practices. Through this critique, contributors chart new directions for research on language ideologies and language practices (including research related to Portuguese and to other ‘languages’) and consider ways of developing new conceptual compasses that are better attuned to the sociolinguistic realities of the late modern era, in which people, texts and languages are increasingly in movement through national borders and those of digital networks of communication.