TY - BOOK AU - Álvarez López,Laura AU - Gonçalves,Perpétua AU - Ornelas de Avelar,Juanito TI - The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil T2 - Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series SN - 9789027263186 AV - PC5044.7 U1 - 469.796 PY - 2018/// CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Portuguese language-Variation KW - Portuguese language-Africa KW - Portuguese language-Brazil KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil -- Earlier studies -- Overview of the book -- Final remarks -- References -- 1. Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Afro-Brazilian continuum on the Brazilian side -- 3. The African side of the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- 4. The African basis of the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- 5. The dynamics of the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- 6. Final remarks -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 2. Research on L2 varieties of European languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 3. Critical issues in the grammatical description of L2 varieties -- 4. From descriptive to formal grammars of L2 varieties -- 4.1 A descriptive grammar of MP -- 4.2 A formal grammar of MP : -- Case study 1 - Goal/beneficiary arguments -- Case study 2 - Theme argument -- Case study 3 - Locative/directional arguments -- 4.3 Conclusions -- 5. Potential of formal grammars for the recognition of L2 varieties -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 3. Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief retrospective -- 3. Some preliminary questions -- 4. Demographic history -- 5. Back to the origins of Brazilian Portuguese -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- 4. Portuguese and African languages in Mozambique -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3.L anguage ecology of Mozambique -- 4. The status and role of Portuguese in colonial and post-colonial language-in-education policies -- 4.1 Portuguese in colonial language-in-education policies; 4.2 Portuguese in post-colonial language-in-education policies -- 5. Nativisation of Portuguese in Mozambique -- 5.1 Mozambican Portuguese as a continuum of varieties -- 5.2 Sociolinguistic factors of variation of Mozambican Portuguese -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- 5. Angolan Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief sociolinguistic history of Portuguese in Angola -- 3. The grammar of AP: A bird's eye view -- 3.1 Lexicon -- 3.2 Phonetics, prosody and phonology -- 3.3 Morphosyntax -- 4. Final remarks: AP, partial restructuring and the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 6. Cabo Verde -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The community profile -- 3.1 Bilingualism: Mother tongue and second language -- 3.2 Use of both languages by domains and their functions -- 3.3 Linguistic attitudes: Language of identity and culture -- 3.4 CV vs. PT: Social relationship and changing perspectives -- 4. Language policy: Current status and priority measures -- References -- 7. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prepositions in the complementation of motion verbs -- 2.1 Directional NPs in African varieties of Portuguese -- 2.1.1 Innovations in Mozambican Portuguese -- 2.1.2 Innovations in Angolan Portuguese -- 2.2 Locative NPs in Brazilian varieties -- 3. Ter existential sentences in the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- 3.1 Ter existential sentences and pro-drop status -- 3.2 Why existential? -- 4. Final remarks -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 8. Language contact and variation in Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical and sociolinguistic overview -- 2.1 Cape Verde -- 2.2 São Tomé and Príncipe -- 3.Data sources -- 4. Morphosyntactic convergence -- 4.1 Nominal and verbal agreement -- 4.1.1 Cape Verde; 4.1.2 São Tomé and Príncipe -- 4.2 Reflexive constructions -- 4.2.1 Cape Verde -- 4.2.2 São Tomé and Príncipe -- 5. Morphosyntactic divergence -- 5.1 Third person object pronouns -- 5.1.1 Cape Verde -- 5.1.2 São Tomé and Príncipe -- 5.2 Relative clauses -- 5.2.1 Cape Verde -- 5.2.2 São Tomé and Príncipe -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Epilogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The notion of the continuum -- 3. Shared features of contact ecology -- 3.1 Classifying by substrates and diffusion mechanisms -- 3.2 Education, targets and norms -- 4. The linguistic dimension of the Afro-Brazilian continuum -- 4.1 The transfer factor in the continuum -- 4.2 Common structuring tendencies (somewhat) independent of transfer -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index N2 - The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5622392 ER -