Portuguese Grammar - (Linguistica Latinoamericana) by Jussara Abraçado & Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language.
- About the Author: Jussara Abraçado, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói; Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 272 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Language Arts
- Series Name: Linguistica Latinoamericana
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Written by ten linguists from different Portuguese-speaking countries, this volume describes Portuguese grammar and its pluricentric character, focusing on two main axes: usage and cognition. It considers different levels of linguistic descriptionBook Synopsis
Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language. To help improve the linguistic understanding of this pluricentric language, the present volume brings together ten studies about different grammatical phenomena observed in Portuguese varieties - from suffixation to intercalated temporal clauses and non-concatenative verbal inflection, among other topics.
Focusing on two main axes - usage and cognition -, these studies draw on the theoretical frameworks of Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, but build a cohesive whole insofar as they all offer usage-based language approaches.
By presenting an overview of recent research on Portuguese and its varieties, the book paves the way for the inclusion of Portuguese in the set of Neo-Latin languages best known to the general public.
About the Author
Jussara Abraçado, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói; Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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