Wetzels W. Leo et al (ed.) The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

Wiley Blackwell, 2016 — xiii, 595 p. — (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN: 1118791959.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 languagesHistory and Current Setting
European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: An Overview on Word Order
Portuguese in Contact
A Comparative Study of the Sounds of European and Brazilian Portuguese: Phonemes and Allophones
Phonological Processes Affecting Vowels: Neutralization, Harmony, and Nasalization
Syllable Structure
Main Stress and Secondary Stress in Brazilian and European Portuguese
The Phonology–Syntax Interface
Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese
The Phonology and Morphology of Word Formation
The Morphology and Phonology of Inflection
Clitic Pronouns: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax
The Null Subject Parameter and the Structure of the Sentence in European and Brazilian Portuguese
The Structure of DPs
Wh‐movement: Interrogatives, Relatives and Clefts
Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese
Passives and SeConstructions
Binding and Pronominal Forms in Portuguese
The Semantics of DPs
Lexical Semantics: Verb Classes and Alternations
Tense and Aspect: A Survey
Mood and Modality
Some Issues in Negation in Portuguese
Discourse Markers
From Latin to Portuguese: Main Phonological Changes
Main Morphosyntactic Changes and Grammaticalization Processes
Main Syntactic Changes from a Principle‐and‐Parameters View
Main Current Processes of Phonological Variation
Main Current Processes of Morphosyntactic Variation
Acquisition of Phonology
Acquisition of Portuguese Syntax
Second Language Acquisition