Portuguese Linguistics
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This paper attempts to consider and analyse the hierarchical structure (Greenberg 1971) of the Mode and Tense relations in the portuguese verbal system. Applying the Structural-Functional theoretical approach, we consider three types of... more
Isso mesmo, que ele se foda. O neoliberalismo é uma merda. Não precisamos dele.
This lexicon provides definition variants for all words translated in Plant Series Papers 1-10. Manuscript MS408 (Maria/Voynich) uses a form of Iberian Vernacular Latin (Proto-Romance), most similar to Portuguese, Galician and Catalan.
The names of the weekdays in all Romance Languages (etymology and history). In this article the wide range of names and wordfroms is shown. The different designations of the weekdays and the system of a seven-day- week are associated with... more
"On the southern tip of the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat (India) and commanding a strategic lookout over the Arabian sea, the small island of Diu has aroused seemingly disproportionate colonial interests throughout its history. Among... more
This paper provides more precise guidance and instruction with regard to the palaeographic method in translating manuscript MS408 (Ischia, Voynich). Manuscripts of antiquity typically require palaeographic interpretive techniques for the... more
Manuscript MS408 (Voynich) is unusual in a number of respects: 1. It uses an extinct language. 2. Its alphabet uses a number of unfamiliar symbols alongside more familiar symbols. 3. It includes no dedicated punctuation marks. 4. Some of... more
This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating how pragmatic factors and usage... more
Open access articles Summary Investigando a robustez de uma metodologia para determinação do valor de base da frequência fundamental Pablo Arantes, Maria Érica do Nascimento Linhares PDF 535-570 Desenvolvimento e validação do... more
A vernacular variety of Portuguese with a structure clearly distinct from that of European Portuguese has developed in Angola. This study examines the linguistic structure of the Angolan Vernacular Portuguese (AVP) that developed in Dundo... more
This paper, written for a linguistics seminar entitled The Portuguese Language in Global Linguistic Perspective, analyzes the orthographic history of the Portuguese language. Also, the attempts at unifying the Brazilian variant and the... more
Portuguese/Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact. (John Benjamins, as the inaugural volume of its series ‘Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics’). Patrícia Amaral & Ana M. Carvalho, eds., 2014. 123-150.
This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary BE in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània which... more
A partir do século XVI, a língua portuguesa teve grande difusão um pouco por toda a Ásia e o Pacífico, sobretudo em consequência de dinâmicas de expansão colonial mas também por outras vias, tais como a imigração. Este capítulo apresenta... more
Este trabalho tem por foco a descrição dos usos não padrão do clítico lhe em variedades do português europeu, brasileiro e africano, L1 e L2, a partir de dados coletados nestas variedades e publicados em teses e outros estudos de... more
This paper provides a theoretical account of the phonological changes incurred by sibilant consonants in the history of Portuguese by framing its analysis within the precepts of Information Theory (Cover & Thomas 2006, Hume & Mailhot... more
Este artigo apresenta uma análise dos factores sociolinguísticos e históricos relevantes para a compreensão da génese e desenvolvimento do português vernáculo de Angola (PVA), seguida de uma análise morfossintáctica do seu sintagma... more
O discurso dominante sobre a situação linguística vivida em Angola tende a retratar o país como exclusivamente falante de português. De facto, em poucos países africanos “has a European language assumed such prominence as a lingua franca... more
Texto integral da minha tese de doutoramento, defendida em fevereiro de 2018.
Full text of my PhD thesis, defended in February 2018.
Full text of my PhD thesis, defended in February 2018.