Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics by Johannes Kabate... - 9783110405866

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese LinguisticsAuthor(s): Johannes Kabatek, Albert Wall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter\nISBN-13: 9783110405866, 978-3110405866\nSynopsis\nThis manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. \n\nIn the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project Grammar of spoken Portuguese, and the project Towards a History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB), among other.