Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 20] 2018
► pp. 237–266
Both Cape Verdean Portuguese (CVP) and Santomean Portuguese (STP) are in contact with Portuguese-lexified Creole languages formed during the 15th and 16th centuries: Cape Verdean (CV), in Cape Verde, and Santome, Angolar, and Lung’Ie, in São Tomé and Príncipe. Despite this, Portuguese is the only official language of the two archipelagos. The goal of this chapter is twofold. First, we aim to compare and discuss corpus data from CVP and STP, underlining the impact of socio-historical factors in some morphosyntactic aspects of these Portuguese varieties’ grammars. Second, we will show that the convergence and divergence observed is not only driven by the language contact situation but also by internal mechanisms of change.
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