The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] 2018. xii, 318 pp.
Laura Álvarez López
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Álvarez López plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 8. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in 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. 185–210 | Chapter
In this chapter, we will focus on two set of changes reported in the literature on African and Brazilian varieties of Portuguese: (i) new uses of prepositions in directional complements of motion verbs and (ii) the emergence of ter (‘to have’) as a prototypically existential verb. Some facts… read more
2018 Introduction The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
This chapter introduces the idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil. It further identifies the common research questions, presenting earlier studies and discussing current gaps in research about Brazilian and African varieties of Portuguese. A detailed overview of the book explains… read more
2017 Afro-Brazilian Cupópia: Lexical and morphosyntactic features of a lexically driven in-group code Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 75–103 | Article
The present paper focuses on the speech of a rural Afro-Brazilian community called Cafundó, situated 150 km from São Paulo. In 1978, when linguistic data were collected, the community constituted approximately eighty individuals, descendants of two slave women who inherited their owners’… read more