The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics - Paperback

by W. Leo Wetzels (Editor), Sergio Menuzzi (Editor), João Costa (Editor)

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition.

• Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages
• Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics
• Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics
• Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike
• Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

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The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition.

Authored by an international team of scholars, this Handbook introduces advanced students and scholars to the essential aspects of diversity across the world's languages. The first work of its kind in this growing field of research, The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics is sure to become an indispensable reference work for linguists across the research spectrum.

Author Biography

Leo Wetzels is Professor Emeritus of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he held the chair of Romance languages and Amazon languages until July 2017. Since September 2017 he acts as a visiting Professor at the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil and, since January 2019, as an invited researcher at the EHESS in Paris, France. He is Editor-in-Chief of Probus, International Journal of Romance Linguistics.

João Costa is Professor of Linguistics at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He served as Secretary of State of Education in the Portuguese Government (2015-2019).

Sergio Menuzzi is Professor at the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is also the current director of the Faculty of Letters in the same university, and has been a researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) since 2004.