1st Edition

Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics Bridging Frames and Traditions

Edited By Gabriel Rei-Doval, Fernando Tejedo-Herrero Copyright 2019
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics: Bridging Frames and Traditions examines the existing historiographic, foundational and methodological issues surrounding Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic linguistics. The volume offers a balanced collection of original research from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It provides a first step to assessing the present and future state of... Read more

Introduction.  Part I. Historiography & Epistemology 1. Hispanic linguistics: Epistemological labels, contents and borders  2. Sociolinguistic history of Brazil  3. Galician and the Portuguese-speaking world from the perspective of translation  4. Language standardization and purism: A historiographical approach to Galician grammar and lLexicography in the nineteenth century  5. A report on Galician linguistics: Between hispanic philological tradition and visibility in the Luso-Brazilian sphere  Part II. Linguistic Analysis 6. NEG-NADA: Discourse-pragmatic licensing of non-canonical negation in two related languages  7. Wheat and pimples: Toward a prototypical, individualized approach to understanding metaphor  8. Debonding of three Hellenisms in Spanish: macro-, mega-, and (p)seudo-  9. Testing contact-induced change in the Spanish of Mallorca. Insights from a historical perspective  10. On grammaticalization and the development of Latin /nV̆r/ in Spanish, Portuguese, and other varieties of Western Romance  Part III. Language and Society 11. Using statistics as a tool in the analysis of sociolinguistic variation: A comparison of current and traditional methods  12. The disappearance of the Morphological Future from educated spoken Carioca Portuguese  13. An overview of Luso-Brazilian sociolinguistics: Second person pronouns  14. Phonetic (non)prestige markers in Galician, in contrast with Portuguese and Spanish: A sociolinguistic view



Biography

Gabriel Rei-Doval is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.



Fernando Tejedo-Herrero is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.