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The book investigates the diagnostics for the prosodic word in European Portuguese, the prosodic organization of various sorts of morphosyntactic objects, and the definition of the prosodic word domain. The book bears on the organization of grammar and phonology, its interface with morphology and syntax, and the nature of phonological representations. Besides focusing primarily on European Portuguese, it also refers to languages such as Italian, Dutch, German, and English, among many others.

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.g. Kelly, 1970; Biderman, 1978; Bacelar do Nascimento et al., 1984; see Berber Sardinha, 2005), this is the first volume in English that encapsulates the exciting and cutting-edge corpus linguistic work being done with Portuguese language corpora on different continents. The book includes chapters by leading corpus linguists dealing with Portuguese corpora across the world, and their contributions explore various methods and how they are...

O arquipelago da Madeira, desabitado no momento do seu descobrimento em 1418, foi povoado e colonizado a partir de Portugal Continental. Dada a grande importancia estrategica e economica (acucar) das ilhas, participaram neste povoamento comerciantes europeus de Italia, Franca, Espanha, Inglaterra e Alemanha assim como escravos trazidos das Canarias e de Africa. Conserva-se uma importante documentacao historica (demografica e administrativa) cujo conhecimento nos permite a interpretacao de factos socio-historicos e antroponimicos. A presente publicacao prossegue dois fins: por a disposicao...

Este manual apresenta o estado atual da investigacao em linguistica portuguesa, combinando abordagens panoramicas e analises detalhadas de topicos selecionados. O volume articula dados diacronicos e sincronicos, do portugues padrao e dialetal, da gramatica do adulto e da aquisicao de L1, explorando propriedades gramaticais caracteristicas do portugues atraves dos metodos e teorias da linguistica contemporanea.

Os capitulos panoramicos integram areas de investigacao que tiveram nas ultimas decadas um desenvolvimento significativo no ambito da linguistica portuguesa (e.g. linguas em...

This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese 'a language.' Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is increasingly internationalized, used as the official language in four continents (in ten countries) and which has come to play a relevant role in the so-called linguistic market on the basis of the geopolitical transformations in a multipolar world. The book covers a wide range of social, political and...