The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
Title | The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese PDF eBook |
Author | J. Clancy Clements |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2009-03-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139476149 |
The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties. These varieties include Portuguese- and Spanish-based creoles, Bozal Spanish and Chinese Coolie Spanish in Cuba, Chinese Immigrant Spanish, Andean Spanish, and Barranquenho, a Portuguese variety on the Portugal-Spain border. Clancy Clements demonstrates that grammar formation not only takes place in parent-to-child communication, but also, importantly, in adult-to-adult communication. He argues that cultural identity is also an important factor in language formation and maintenance, especially in the cases of Portuguese, Castilian, and Barranquenho. More generally, the contact varieties of Portuguese and Spanish have been shaped by demographics, by prestige, as well as by linguistic input, general cognitive abilities and limitations, and by the dynamics of speech community.
Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish
Title | Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish PDF eBook |
Author | Patrícia Amaral |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2021-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198847181 |
This book explores the syntactic and semantic change of three types of constructions in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex DPs with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de/sem embargo de, so(b) pena de), and (iii) complex predicates containing light verbs (dar consejo/conselho de). While these constructions are syntactically different, they are all clause-taking complex expressions containing a noun followed by the functional preposition de ('of'). This book is the first work to examine them together through a systematic comparative corpus study. This makes it possible to tease apart individual from general changes and to focus on the chronological clustering of changes involving complex constructions in both languages. The development of these constructions has multiple causes related to the noun. Specifically, the reanalysis of the entire expression is affected both by the meaning of the noun and by changes in complementation patterns that systematically affected nouns (as well as verbs and adjectives) in the 16th-17th centuries in both languages. By studying mechanisms of language change and their outcomes in two sister languages, the book addresses questions like: How do complex constructions evolve? How does the meaning of the noun change when considered in isolation and when compared to the meaning of the whole construction? How do syntactic categories change over time? Studies of closely related languages, which can reveal distinct developments occurring in parallel over time, provide a crucial test case for theories of language change
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America
Title | The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Aizawa Kato |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0190465891 |
Spanish and Portuguese were Romance languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula and were brought to America as the languages of the colonizers in the 16th century. Along the centuries, the two languages developed specific properties that distinguish them from the varieties spoken in the Old World. This book offers a rich comparative material which helps us in the understanding of linguistic change and variation.
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces
Title | Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Patrícia Amaral |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027270171 |
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of exploring points of interaction between closely related varieties. It is unprecedented in its scope and unique in bringing together leading experts in a systematic study of similarities and differences between both languages. The authors explore the common boundaries of these languages within current theoretical frameworks, in an effort to combine scholarship that analyzes Portuguese and Spanish from multiple subfields of linguistics. The volume compares structures from both synchronic and diachronic points of view, addressing a range of issues pertaining to variability, acquisition, contact, and the formation of new languages. While it provides an up-to-date resource for scholars in the field, it can also be a useful companion for advanced students.
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
Title | Address in Portuguese and Spanish PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Hummel |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2020-07-20 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110701235 |
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history—e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel colonization of the Americas by Portugal and Spain; the long-term transformation from a feudal to a democratic system—in which crucial moments in the diachrony of address took place. To give one example, empirical data show that the puzzling late spread of Sp. usted ‘you (formal, polite)’ and Pt. você ‘you’ across America can be explained for both languages by the role of the political and military colonial administration. To explore these new insights, the volume relies on an innovative methodology, as it links traditional downstream diachrony with upstream diachronic reconstruction based on synchronic variation. Including theoretical reflections as well as fine-grained empirical studies, it brings together the most relevant authors in the field.
Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders
Title | Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders PDF eBook |
Author | L. Callahan |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2015-12-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137340452 |
Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.
On Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Linguistics
Title | On Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Lingu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780783777856 |