Charlotte Galves
List of John Benjamins publications for which Charlotte Galves plays a role.
2019 Chapter 8. Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 191–214 | Chapter
This chapter discusses morphological variation in Brazilian Portuguese, namely the clitic/tonic pronoun alternation and the variation in the morphological realization of subject-verb agreement. We argue on diachronic and synchronic grounds that while the alternation between the clitic and tonic… read more
2018 The Tycho Brahe Corpus of Historical Portuguese: Methodology and results Romance Parsed Corpora, Tortora, Christina, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette (eds.), pp. 49–73 | Article
This article introduces the Tycho Brahe Corpus (TBC), a parsed corpus of Historical Portuguese built on the model of the Penn-York Corpora of English. As an illustration of the usefulness of the TBC, the article presents research on the evolution of the position and interpretation of subjects in… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 19–42 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to propose a discussion based on the recent empirical and theoretical progress on the issue of the origins of Brazilian Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese innovations will be presented in two separate sets. The first includes linguistic features that are present in all… read more
2013 Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese Challenging Clitics, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine and Hans Petter Helland (eds.), pp. 119–134 | Article
In this paper, we argue that the architecture of grammar proposed in Distributed Morphology can shed light on the diachronic shift that has occurred in Portuguese enclisis. Employing such a view of the architecture of grammar allows us to interpret this shift as a case of grammaticalization, thus… read more
2012 The phonology of rhythm from Classical to Modern Portuguese Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 173–207 | Article
The prosodic change that has been reported to have occurred from Classical to Modern Portuguese is investigated by means of a new approach to the study of rhythm in language change. Assuming that rhythm is a by-product of the presence/absence of a set of properties in a given linguistic system, we… read more
2005 Clitic Placement and the Position of Subjects in the History of European Portuguese Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs (eds.), pp. 97–113 | Article
2002 External subjects in two varieties of Portuguese: Evidence for a non-unified analysis Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December, Beyssade, Claire, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi (eds.), pp. 109–125 | Article