Silvia Figueiredo Brandão
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Figueiredo Brandão plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 11. The agreement continuum in urban samples of African, Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 267–290 | Chapter
Our aim is to contrast number expression in nominal phrases (NPs) and in verbal phrases (VPs), taking into consideration variationist analysis of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), European Portuguese (EP), and Portuguese spoken in São Tomé (STP) and in Mozambique (MP). Building on sociolinguistic… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Agreement in Portuguese: Contributions from a research project Studies on Variation in Portuguese, Barbosa, Pilar P., Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues (eds.), pp. 257–278 | Chapter
The purpose of this chapter is to relate the status of linguistic rules (Labov, 2003) and the characterization of varieties/languages. Based on the assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics, patterns of nominal and verbal number agreement in European and Brazilian Portuguese are described. In… read more