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Although over 100 million people on various continents use Portuguese as their major language, the academic community in the United States has almost totally neglected the study of Portuguese linguistics. Romance Linguistics links the formal linguistic study of Portuguese with the social contaxt in which language is used. These studies, which cover a wide range of topics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse, comprise some of the best recent work on Portuguese.
Many of the chapters challenge parts of widely recognized theoretical models of language, such as Chomsky's, while others support existing theories or linguistic concepts.
Table of Contents
Phonology
Stress and Rhythm in Brazilian Portuguese by Roy C. Major
A Spectrographic Analysis of Portuguese Stressed and Unstressed Vowels by Willis C. Fails and J. Halvor Clegg
Morphology
Nomes Aumentativos Denominais em Português by Maria Carlota Amaral Paixão Rosa
Capeverdean Diminutives by Donaldo P. Macedo
Syntax
Tense and Binding Theory in Portuguese by José Meireles and Eduardo Raposo
Antecedents and Empty Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese by Dana Wheeler
Pragmatics
Tópico e Ordem Vocabular by Maria Luiza Braga
Brazilian Portuguese Directives and a Hierarchy of Strategies for Politeness by Dale April Koike
Text and Discourse Analysis
The Definite Article in Portuguese: A Discourse Oriented Approach by Célia Mendonça
Our December by Haj Ross
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 18 1992 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9780897892971 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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