LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA
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Edited by:
Dermeval da Hora Oliveira
LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA es una serie creada en cooperación con la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL); publica trabajos originales de investigación sobre la realidad lingüística de cualquier comunidad latinoamericana y contribuciones a las concepciones teóricas de cualquier subdisciplina o escuela teórica elaboradas por comunidades científicas radicadas en América Latina. Son bienvenidas, por ejemplo, contribuciones referidas a la formación de las variedades del español y del portugués americanos, a las consecuencias lingüísticas de la presencia histórica de las lenguas africanas, a gramáticas y situaciones sociolingüísticas de las lenguas indígenas, y a la formación histórica de la diversidad lingüística en América en general, entre otros posibles campos de investigación.
Los volúmenes de la serie son revisados por pares.
LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA é uma série criada em cooperação com a Associação de Linguística e Filologia da América Latina (ALFAL); publica trabalhos originais de investigação sobre a realidade linguística de qualquer comunidade latino-americana e contribuições para as concepções teóricas de qualquer subdisciplina ou escola teórica elaboradas por comunidades científicas radicadas na América Latina. São bem-vindas, por exemplo, contribuições referentes à formação das variedades do espanhol e do português americanos, às consequências linguísticas da presença histórica das línguas africanas, a gramáticas e situações sociolinguísticas das línguas indígenas, e à formação histórica da diversidade linguística na América em geral, entre outros possíveis campos de investigação.
Os volumes da série são revisados por pares.
Author / Editor information
Dermeval da Hora, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brasil; Carlos Garatea Grau, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú; Uli Reich, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Topics
Situated at the intersection of sociophonetics, semiotic anthropology and enactive linguistics, this book explores how linguistic variation is unequally reinterpreted depending on stereotypes about the speaker. Focused on the Colombian Caribbean coast, it reveals processes of discrimination through the differential perception of variation through the prism of social and racial dynamics.
The volume celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) and its diversity of research by collecting contributions by former presidents, plenary speakers at recent congresses and other prominent members. It covers topics such as the history and future of ALFAL, linguistic variation, phonological and phonetic studies, sociolinguistics and etymology.
Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often signaled via intonation in European languages, like information structure and sentence type, expressed in communicative acts between speakers who are bilingual in such a European language, Spanish, and one in which many of these meanings are expressed by morphology, Quechua?
Based on semi-spontaneous dialogical elicitation data in both Spanish and Quechua gathered via fieldwork in the bilingual community of Huari, Peru, this work provides some challenging answers to these questions. Besides being the first detailed description of the prosody of a Central Quechuan language, it provides an in-depth study of the intonational systems and prosodic structures of the two languages and shows that their variation spaces overlap to a large extent, in turns exhibiting or not exhibiting evidence of word stress, pitch accents, lexical pitch accents in loanwords, and head- or edge-prominence.
Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system. Throughout these years, important contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, especially on wh-interrogative sentences, focalization, topicalization and relative clauses.
As for exclamative and imperative sentences, however, there is a considerable research gap in all grammatical levels. Regarding interrogatives, semantic and prosodic studies are still lacking (as well as research on the acquisition and processing of these constructions). This collected volume fills some of those gaps, gathering studies on wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese which approach syntactical, semantical and prosodic aspects of these constructions through a rich and yet unregistered set of data. They also deliver novel acquisition and diachronic data that will further both the comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and the ongoing discussions on left periphery phenomena.
This book explores the interaction between prosody and other research topics, in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond. Written by experts in the field, the contributions present a variety of studies that range from prosodic variation across languages to multimodal analysis of speech acts and common linguistic structures. It will be of interest for linguists, speech therapists, music researchers and psycholinguists alike.
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.
This volume gathers contributions on the linguistic and sociocultural history of Brazilian Portuguese, considering aspects related to the socio-historical development of (the) Portuguese in (of) Brazil. It brings to the public the output of Project 3 – "History of Brazilian Portuguese: from Europe to America" – of the Latin American Association of Linguistics and Philology (ALFAL).
This volume presents key results of the Estudo comparativo de variedades africanas, brasileiras e europeias do Português (ALFAL Project 21): (i) an overview of the results and new perspectives of analysis; (ii) the description of morphosyntactic phenomena in Portuguese varieties; and (iii) a discussion about methodological aspects fundamental to the development of comparative linguistic studies.
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed at contact linguistics experts, it gathers theoretical frameworks as well as case studies about these processes, both in diachronic and synchronic perspectives.
