The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil 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 promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used.
As of 26 July 2021, the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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Acknowledgments | pp. ix–x
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Abbreviations | pp. xi–xii
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IntroductionLaura Álvarez López and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar | pp. 1–16
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Part I. Theoretical and methodological issues
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Chapter 1. Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of PortugueseCharlotte Galves | pp. 17–42
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Chapter 2. Research on L2 varieties of European languages: From descriptive to formal grammarsPerpétua Gonçalves | pp. 43–64
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Part II. Historical, demographic and sociolinguistic aspects
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Chapter 3. Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of BrazilDinah Callou | pp. 65–88
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Chapter 4. Portuguese and African languages in Mozambique: A sociolinguistic approachFeliciano Chimbutane | pp. 89–110
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Chapter 5. Angolan Portuguese: Its historical development and current sociolinguistic settingLiliana Inverno | pp. 111–134
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Chapter 6. Cabo Verde: Portraying a speech communityAmália de Melo Lopes | pp. 135–168
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Chapter 7. From creoles to Portuguese: Language shift in São Tomé and PríncipeTjerk Hagemeijer | pp. 169–184
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Part III. Comparative approaches to African and Brazilian varieties of Portuguese
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Chapter 8. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of PortugueseJuanito Ornelas de Avelar and Laura Álvarez López | pp. 185–210
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Chapter 9. The Africa-Brazil continuum: The case of passives and impersonal constructionsMargarida Petter, Esmeralda Vailati Negrão and Evani Viotti | pp. 211–236
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Chapter 10. Language contact and variation in Cape Verde and São Tomé and PríncipeNélia Alexandre and Rita Gonçalves | pp. 237–266
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Chapter 11. The agreement continuum in urban samples of African, Brazilian and European varieties of PortugueseSilvia Figueiredo Brandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira | pp. 267–290
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EpilogueAlan Baxter | pp. 291–314
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Index | pp. 315–318
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