Portuguese grammar
eBook - ePub

Portuguese grammar

Usage-based perspectives

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Portuguese grammar

Usage-based perspectives

About this book

Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language. To help improve the linguistic understanding of this pluricentric language, the present volume brings together ten studies about different grammatical phenomena observed in Portuguese varieties – from suffixation to intercalated temporal clauses and non-concatenative verbal inflection, among other topics.

Focusing on two main axes – usage and cognition –, these studies draw on the theoretical frameworks of Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, but build a cohesive whole insofar as they all offer usage-based language approaches.

By presenting an overview of recent research on Portuguese and its varieties, the book paves the way for the inclusion of Portuguese in the set of Neo-Latin languages best known to the general public.

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Yes, you can access Portuguese grammar by Jussara Abraçado,Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Grammar & Punctuation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Presentation
  5. Grammar in the mind and in the society: Evidence from European and Brazilian pluricentric Portuguese
  6. Lexicon pluricentrality and pluricircularity in Portuguese language varieties
  7. Middle voice in Brazilian Portuguese from the theoretical perspective of Cognitive Grammar
  8. A functional/cognitive approach to hápax and quasi-hápax in Brazilian Portuguese suffixation
  9. Non-concatenative verbal inflection in Brazilian Portuguese: A construction grammar approach
  10. Non-prototypic contrastive constructions in varieties of Portuguese
  11. Intercalated temporal clauses in formal written Brazilian Portuguese
  12. Grammatical variants of the ditransitive construction in Brazilian Portuguese
  13. Discourse marker with the verb saber (‘to know’) closing discourse topic: Analyzing oral narratives in brazilian Portuguese
  14. Analysis of conversation and its many knots