Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction

by Milton M. Azevedo

This accessible introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese looks at its social and historical background. In addition to covering the central topics of syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, it explores the development of the language, the spread of Portuguese in the world, and sociolinguistic issues such as dialect variation and language planning. Keeping linguistic theory to a minimum, the book focuses on presenting linguistic facts within a useful global survey of the language and its issues.

Genres: Linguistics

356 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Completelybanned · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just to clarify, this book does cover all varieties of Portuguese, with a chapter dedicated to Brazilian Portuguese and a chapter dedicated to European Portuguese, African Creoles, Asian varieties, and even Portuguese diaspora. Leans on the phonological and phonetics side of things, but there's plenty of diachronic, sociolinguistic, morphological stuff for people who want that. All in all, a very well rounded volume, especially useful to both non-linguists and linguists alike.