Studies on Variation in Portuguese

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Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva, Celeste Rodrigues
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 15.11.2017 - 345 Seiten
Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated to research on variation within national varieties (Brazilian and European). Here, a multidimensional analysis that combines both the geographic and the social dimensions of variation emerges as a way to identify possible regional specificities and the directionality of some of the variants. Part 2 collects studies that compare the behavior of a particular linguistic variable across different varieties. The variable phenomena discussed concern several levels of grammar and are framed within different conceptions of variation, thus promoting confrontation of theoretical and methodological alternatives. Overall, the volume constitutes a significant contribution to the essential question of how to model variation at different levels.
 

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Overview and outlook
1
Part I Variation within national varieties of Portuguese
21
Chapter 1 Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech
23
The challenge of mapping intonation and rhythm
81
A geographical continuum
111
Second person pronouns in Braga speech
135
A sociolinguistic and theoretical approach
153
Chapter 7 Conditions on variation in prenominal possessives in European Portuguese
177
A sociolinguistic investigation
233
Part II Variation across national varieties of Portuguese
255
Contributions from a research project
257
Chapter 12 The Portuguese inflected infinitive across varieties
279
Chapter 13 Dative variation in the Portuguese of São Tomé
301
Evidence from Brazilian and European spoken Portuguese
321
Propername index
341
Subject index
343

Chapter 8 Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon
199
Chapter 9 Linguistic and social embedding of variable concord with 1st plural nós we in Brazilian Portuguese
219

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