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Format: 1 online resource.

Edition: 1st ed.

Series Statement: Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Volume 14

Content: Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese.

Note: Based on the 1st Symposium on Variation in Portuguese, held at the University of Minho, Portugal, in April 2014. , Intro -- Studies on Variation in Portuguese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The study of variation in Portuguese: Overview and outlook -- 1. Current issues in the study of language variation (an overview) -- 2. The volume -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Part I. Variation within national varieties of Portuguese -- Chapter 1. Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The European Portuguese vowel system -- 3. Previous acoustic studies of the vowel system of European Portuguese -- 4. Method -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties: The challenge of mapping intonation and rhythm -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The challenge of mapping -- 2.1 Mapping linguistic variation -- 2.2 Models of spatial interaction and interpolation: An innovative proposal to map variation -- 3. Mapping linguistic variation in European Portuguese -- 4. Materials -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Intonation -- 5.2 Rhythm -- 6. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese: A geographical continuum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on intonational variation in Portuguese -- 3. The phonological analysis of nuclear contours across languages: The rising-falling contour -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 The phonological analysis -- 5.2 The geographical distribution -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 5. "Vocês tenham cuidado, sois educadas para isso": Second person pronouns in Braga speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some theoretical and methodological issues. , 3. Variation between vós and vocês in Braga´s speech -- 4. Variation between ø2pl and ø3pl in subject function -- 5. Variation in complement function -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 6. Variable use of strong preterites: A sociolinguistic and theoretical approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and coding -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and theoretical consequences -- 4.1 Background assumptions -- 4.2 Strong preterites in standard EP -- 4.3 Variable syncretism -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 7. Conditions on variation in pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pre-nominal possessives: Determiners or adjectives? -- 3. Strong, weak and clitic possessives? -- 4. Pre-nominal possessives and the definite/indefinite article -- 5. The structure -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 8. Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clitic climbing and Restructuring in European Portuguese -- 3. Climbing in Braga and Lisbon -- 4. The sociolinguistic nature of clitic climbing -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Chapter 9. Linguistic and social embedding of variable concord with 1st plural nós 'we' in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological and theoretical aspects -- 3. Analysis and discussion -- 4. Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10. Analyzing a parametric change in Brazilian Portuguese: A sociolinguistic investigation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Associating variationist sociolinguistics and Principles and Parameters Theory -- 3. Brazilian Portuguese and the re-setting of the Null Subject Parameter -- 3.1 Diachronic evidence -- 3.2 Synchronic evidence -- 3.3 The 'embedding' of the change in progress -- 4. Non-referential (or expletive) subjects. , Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author queries -- Part II. Variation across national varieties of Portuguese -- Chapter 11. Agreement in Portuguese: Contributions from a research project -- 1. Introduction: Agreement and characterizing varieties of Portuguese -- 2. Theory and methodology -- 3. Marks of nominal and verbal agreement in BP and EP: Different rules -- 3.1 Plural agreement within the Noun Phrase (NP) -- 3.2 Third person plural verbal agreement -- 3.3 First person plural agreement: A gente and nós -- 3.4 Comparing varieties of Portuguese: The status of the rules -- 4. From rule status to a characterization of BP and EP: Some speculations -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 12. The Portuguese inflected infinitive across varieties -- 1. Overview -- 2. The inflected infinitive in contemporary Romance languages -- 3. The inflected infinitive in Portuguese: Diachronic and synchronic facts -- 3.1 Diachrony -- 3.2 Contemporary varieties -- 4. The inflected infinitive in contemporary Portuguese -- 5. Final remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Corpora -- Chapter 13. Dative variation in the Portuguese of São Tomé -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The linguistic situation of São Tomé and Príncipe -- 3. Some properties of DOC and/or DPC languages -- 4. Dative expression in non-European varieties of Portuguese -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Results -- 6.1 General results -- 6.2 Results by linguistic and extra-linguistic variables -- 7. Santome -- 8. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 14. Simple past with pluperfect interpretation: Evidence from Brazilian and European spoken Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Past-in-the-past in Portuguese: an overview -- 3. Simple past and compound pluperfect: Variation in EP and BP -- 4. Simple past with pluperfect reading: linguistic constraints. , 4.1 Person inflection -- 4.2 Reference time for the pluperfect -- 4.3 Type of clause -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Proper-name index -- Subject index.

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