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Rosemeyer, Malte. 2019. Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives. Language Variation and Change 31 (2) : 165–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

wh-interrogatives

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study handles actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives. It analyzes almost 19,000 wh-interrogatives from a corpus of theater plays dated between 1800 and 2016, demonstrating that not all frequency changes constitute actual change.