Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Amaral, Patricia); 2. Part I. Comparative perspectives in diachrony; 3. The position of Ibero-Romance in the Romania and of Portuguese within Ibero-Romance (by Wanner, Dieter); 4. Syntactic change in Portuguese and Spanish: Divergent and parallel patterns of linguistic splitting (by Martins, Ana Maria); 5. Judeo-Spanish in contact with Portuguese: A historical overview (by Quintana, Aldina); 6. Dequeismo and queismo in Portuguese and Spanish (by Cantero, Manuel Delicado); 7. Part II. Comparative perspectives in synchrony; 8. On the partially divergent phonology of Spanish, Portuguese and points in between (by Ferreira, Letania); 9. The intonational phonology of Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese (by Armstrong, Meghan E.); 10. Similar and differing patterns of allomorphy in the Spanish and Portuguese verbs (by O'Neill, Paul); 11. On clitic attachment in Ibero-Romance: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish (by Luis, Ana R.); 12. Two kinds of differential object marking in Portuguese and Spanish (by Schwenter, Scott A.); 13. Part III. Portuguese and Spanish in contact in communities and individuals; 14. Sociolinguistic continuities in language contact situations:: The case of Portuguese in contact with Spanish along the Uruguayan-Brazilian border (by Carvalho, Ana Maria); 15. Mirandese in contact with Portuguese and Spanish (by Martins, Cristina); 16. On the structural basis of non-redundant acquisition: Evidence from Spanish bilingual L3 Portuguese (by Rothman, Jason); 17. Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish: Theoretical and methodological factors (by Salaberry, M. Rafael); 18. Part IV. Portuguese and Spanish in the Iberia and in the Americas: The African legacy; 19. A historical perspective of Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Spanish varieties in the Iberia Peninsula (by Lipski, John M.); 20. Form selection in contact languages: Evidence from some Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified contact varieties (by Clements, J. Clancy); 21. Portuguese remnants in the Afro-Hispanic diaspora (by Schwegler, Armin); 22. Variation and change in Latin American Spanish and Portuguese (by Guy, Gregory R.); 23. Index
