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Books by Perpétua Gonçalves
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to off... more The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used.
Papers by Perpétua Gonçalves
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 5, 2018
twofold: 1) to examine structural properties shared by the varieties of the Afro-Brazilian contin... more twofold: 1) to examine structural properties shared by the varieties of the Afro-Brazilian continuum, and 2) to describe sociocultural contexts from which they have emerged, and their present-day domains of language use. In Chapter 1, Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum in Portuguese, Charlotte Galves explores linguistic features characteristic of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), dividing the features into two sets: the ones that are typical of all Brazilian dialects, and the ones that are restricted to isolated Afro-Brazilian and rural communities. According to the author, one main piece of evidence for the existence of the Afro-Brazilian continuum is the fact that all of these features characteristic of BP can also be found in the African varieties of Portuguese. Galves concludes that more information about the external ecology of contact is essential in order to study the evolution of these new Portuguese languages. Chapter 2, Research on L2 varieties of European languages by Perpétua Gonçalves, offers a discussion on the concepts of internal-and externallanguage. The author argues that a clear-cut distinction between these two concepts is necessary to further describe the new grammars of second language (L2) varieties, and that adopting an internal-language perspective in the study of L2 varieties makes it possible to provide stronger generalisations about linguistic innovations (in these L2 varieties). Using lexicon-syntactic and morphosyntactic data from Mozambican Portuguese (MP), the author demonstrates that linguistic innovations in MP belong to a consistent grammatical system and are new formal properties of the MP grammar, rather than the results of failures in L2 acquisition. In Chapter 3, Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil, Dinah Callou presents an overview of the literature on the origin of BP. She gives great importance to the expansive Brazilian territory, and writes that there is "not one
Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, May 16, 2018
ABRALIN, May 22, 2017
Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as ev... more Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as evidências de uma língua que permitem estabelecer as propriedades da sua gramática são analisadas de forma diferente, consoante essa língua é adquirida como língua materna (L1) ou como língua segunda (L2). A razão para esta diferença é que na aquisição de L2 as evidências da gramática da língua alvo podem ser ambíguas em casos em que, quando essa mesma língua é adquirida como L1, não existe ambiguidade. Para ilustrar este argumento, serão apresentados dois estudos de caso sobre o Português de Moçambique, uma variedade não-nativa adquirida por falantes de L1s bantu. Estes estudos de caso mostram que as evidências geradas pela gramática do Português europeu podem fazer emergir valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos' que, embora não existentes no sistema gramatical original, são perfeitamente legítimos do ponto de vista da gramática das L1s dos falantes. Em ambos os casos, embora os novos valores de parâmetro não sejam convergentes com a língua alvo, a reestruturação gramatical fica bloqueada porque os valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos' parecem analisar com sucesso o input. Além disso, razões extra-linguísticas também contribuem para a conservação dos valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos', nomeadamente o facto de a maioria dos falantes usarem o Português como L2, fazendo com que os efeitos de superfície desses valores de parâmetro 'errados/ novos' sejam mais densos do que os que são gerados pela gramática do Português europeu.
Revue Belge De Philologie Et D Histoire, 2001
Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue off... more Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue officielle ; il est essentiellement parle en milieu urbain, par des locuteurs ayant pour langue maternelle une langue de la famille bantoue. L'A. retrace les elements de l'histoire du Mozambique qui expliquent la situation actuelle du portugais dans ce pays (langue urbaine + langue seconde) et decrit brievement les caracteristiques grammaticales et morphosyntaxiques du portugais du Mozambique, soulevant la question de la norme a enseigner dans les ecoles
Via Atlântica, Dec 8, 2000
as contribuições a uma versão anterior deste texto.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Sep 14, 2004
Applied Linguistics, 2000
... claims that, for this kind of research, it would be more fruitful to work with natural gramma... more ... claims that, for this kind of research, it would be more fruitful to work with natural grammars like Nicaraguan English or English Romani. ... of L2' (Benett and Progovac: 209), we still ®nd authors who believe that there is no evidence of L1 transference (Youssef and Mazurkewich ...
Language Policy, May 29, 2023
This study seeks to understand the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of languag... more This study seeks to understand the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of language shift from Bantu languages into Portuguese, the powerful and prestigious language in Mozambique. The study is based on thematic analysis of semi-structured focus group interviews with urban middle class parents of young citizens born after the independence of the country in 1975. Drawing on a critical, multi-layered approach that recognises the national, institutional and interpersonal layers of language policy work, where FLP is located, this study contributes to question Fishman's (Reversing language shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages, Multiling Matters, 1991; in: Bathia TK, Ritchie WR (eds) The handbook of bilingualism, Blackwell, 2006) view of family and intergenerational transmission as central for language maintenance, and to move beyond Spolsky's (Language policy, Cambridge University Press, 2004; J Multiling Multicult Dev 33:3-11, 2012) tripartite model of language policy. We found that, pressured by a combination of instrumental, sociodemographic and politico-ideological forces, urban middle class parents choose to invest in the transmission of Portuguese to their children at the expense of Bantu languages, which is often in conflict with their sociocultural desires, particularly the desire to preserve their native languages and cultures, and to ensure intergenerational ties. We argue that this preference for the Portuguese language is contributing to pave the way for language shift in Mozambique. This is the first study to explore the drivers of language shift in the family context in Mozambique, contributing, among others, to understand the dilemmas and challenges faced by families in the management of bi/multilingualism in diglossic postcolonial contexts.
Revue Belge De Philologie Et D Histoire Belgisch Tijdschrift Voor Filologie En Geschiedenis, 2001
Multilingual education, 2023
Português em Contato, 2009
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2018
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to off... more The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Auth ...
Via Atlântica, 2000
as contribuições a uma versão anterior deste texto.
Second Language Research, 2002
In this article, my point of departure is that language change is driven by acquisition, and I ar... more In this article, my point of departure is that language change is driven by acquisition, and I argue that the triggers for establishing the properties of language-specific grammars differ according to whether first language (L1) or second language (L2) acquisition is involved. The reason for this is that in L2 acquisition evidence about the target grammar may be ambiguous in ways which do not occur in L1 acquisition. To illustrate the argument, I present two case studies of Mozambican African Portuguese, a nonnative variety of Portuguese acquired during childhood by L1 speakers of Bantu languages. These case studies show that strings generated by the grammar of European Portuguese may trigger ‘wrong/new’ parameter values which, although nonexistent in the original grammatical system, are perfectly legitimate from the point of view of the speakers’ L1 grammars. In both cases, although the new parameter settings (NPSs) are not convergent with the target grammar, resetting is blocked b...
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 2001
Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue off... more Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue officielle ; il est essentiellement parle en milieu urbain, par des locuteurs ayant pour langue maternelle une langue de la famille bantoue. L'A. retrace les elements de l'histoire du Mozambique qui expliquent la situation actuelle du portugais dans ce pays (langue urbaine + langue seconde) et decrit brievement les caracteristiques grammaticales et morphosyntaxiques du portugais du Mozambique, soulevant la question de la norme a enseigner dans les ecoles
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2004
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to off... more The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used.
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 5, 2018
twofold: 1) to examine structural properties shared by the varieties of the Afro-Brazilian contin... more twofold: 1) to examine structural properties shared by the varieties of the Afro-Brazilian continuum, and 2) to describe sociocultural contexts from which they have emerged, and their present-day domains of language use. In Chapter 1, Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum in Portuguese, Charlotte Galves explores linguistic features characteristic of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), dividing the features into two sets: the ones that are typical of all Brazilian dialects, and the ones that are restricted to isolated Afro-Brazilian and rural communities. According to the author, one main piece of evidence for the existence of the Afro-Brazilian continuum is the fact that all of these features characteristic of BP can also be found in the African varieties of Portuguese. Galves concludes that more information about the external ecology of contact is essential in order to study the evolution of these new Portuguese languages. Chapter 2, Research on L2 varieties of European languages by Perpétua Gonçalves, offers a discussion on the concepts of internal-and externallanguage. The author argues that a clear-cut distinction between these two concepts is necessary to further describe the new grammars of second language (L2) varieties, and that adopting an internal-language perspective in the study of L2 varieties makes it possible to provide stronger generalisations about linguistic innovations (in these L2 varieties). Using lexicon-syntactic and morphosyntactic data from Mozambican Portuguese (MP), the author demonstrates that linguistic innovations in MP belong to a consistent grammatical system and are new formal properties of the MP grammar, rather than the results of failures in L2 acquisition. In Chapter 3, Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil, Dinah Callou presents an overview of the literature on the origin of BP. She gives great importance to the expansive Brazilian territory, and writes that there is "not one
Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, May 16, 2018
ABRALIN, May 22, 2017
Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as ev... more Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as evidências de uma língua que permitem estabelecer as propriedades da sua gramática são analisadas de forma diferente, consoante essa língua é adquirida como língua materna (L1) ou como língua segunda (L2). A razão para esta diferença é que na aquisição de L2 as evidências da gramática da língua alvo podem ser ambíguas em casos em que, quando essa mesma língua é adquirida como L1, não existe ambiguidade. Para ilustrar este argumento, serão apresentados dois estudos de caso sobre o Português de Moçambique, uma variedade não-nativa adquirida por falantes de L1s bantu. Estes estudos de caso mostram que as evidências geradas pela gramática do Português europeu podem fazer emergir valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos' que, embora não existentes no sistema gramatical original, são perfeitamente legítimos do ponto de vista da gramática das L1s dos falantes. Em ambos os casos, embora os novos valores de parâmetro não sejam convergentes com a língua alvo, a reestruturação gramatical fica bloqueada porque os valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos' parecem analisar com sucesso o input. Além disso, razões extra-linguísticas também contribuem para a conservação dos valores de parâmetro 'errados/novos', nomeadamente o facto de a maioria dos falantes usarem o Português como L2, fazendo com que os efeitos de superfície desses valores de parâmetro 'errados/ novos' sejam mais densos do que os que são gerados pela gramática do Português europeu.
Revue Belge De Philologie Et D Histoire, 2001
Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue off... more Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue officielle ; il est essentiellement parle en milieu urbain, par des locuteurs ayant pour langue maternelle une langue de la famille bantoue. L'A. retrace les elements de l'histoire du Mozambique qui expliquent la situation actuelle du portugais dans ce pays (langue urbaine + langue seconde) et decrit brievement les caracteristiques grammaticales et morphosyntaxiques du portugais du Mozambique, soulevant la question de la norme a enseigner dans les ecoles
Via Atlântica, Dec 8, 2000
as contribuições a uma versão anterior deste texto.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Sep 14, 2004
Applied Linguistics, 2000
... claims that, for this kind of research, it would be more fruitful to work with natural gramma... more ... claims that, for this kind of research, it would be more fruitful to work with natural grammars like Nicaraguan English or English Romani. ... of L2' (Benett and Progovac: 209), we still ®nd authors who believe that there is no evidence of L1 transference (Youssef and Mazurkewich ...
Language Policy, May 29, 2023
This study seeks to understand the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of languag... more This study seeks to understand the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of language shift from Bantu languages into Portuguese, the powerful and prestigious language in Mozambique. The study is based on thematic analysis of semi-structured focus group interviews with urban middle class parents of young citizens born after the independence of the country in 1975. Drawing on a critical, multi-layered approach that recognises the national, institutional and interpersonal layers of language policy work, where FLP is located, this study contributes to question Fishman's (Reversing language shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages, Multiling Matters, 1991; in: Bathia TK, Ritchie WR (eds) The handbook of bilingualism, Blackwell, 2006) view of family and intergenerational transmission as central for language maintenance, and to move beyond Spolsky's (Language policy, Cambridge University Press, 2004; J Multiling Multicult Dev 33:3-11, 2012) tripartite model of language policy. We found that, pressured by a combination of instrumental, sociodemographic and politico-ideological forces, urban middle class parents choose to invest in the transmission of Portuguese to their children at the expense of Bantu languages, which is often in conflict with their sociocultural desires, particularly the desire to preserve their native languages and cultures, and to ensure intergenerational ties. We argue that this preference for the Portuguese language is contributing to pave the way for language shift in Mozambique. This is the first study to explore the drivers of language shift in the family context in Mozambique, contributing, among others, to understand the dilemmas and challenges faced by families in the management of bi/multilingualism in diglossic postcolonial contexts.
Revue Belge De Philologie Et D Histoire Belgisch Tijdschrift Voor Filologie En Geschiedenis, 2001
Multilingual education, 2023
Português em Contato, 2009
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2018
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to off... more The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Auth ...
Via Atlântica, 2000
as contribuições a uma versão anterior deste texto.
Second Language Research, 2002
In this article, my point of departure is that language change is driven by acquisition, and I ar... more In this article, my point of departure is that language change is driven by acquisition, and I argue that the triggers for establishing the properties of language-specific grammars differ according to whether first language (L1) or second language (L2) acquisition is involved. The reason for this is that in L2 acquisition evidence about the target grammar may be ambiguous in ways which do not occur in L1 acquisition. To illustrate the argument, I present two case studies of Mozambican African Portuguese, a nonnative variety of Portuguese acquired during childhood by L1 speakers of Bantu languages. These case studies show that strings generated by the grammar of European Portuguese may trigger ‘wrong/new’ parameter values which, although nonexistent in the original grammatical system, are perfectly legitimate from the point of view of the speakers’ L1 grammars. In both cases, although the new parameter settings (NPSs) are not convergent with the target grammar, resetting is blocked b...
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 2001
Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue off... more Depuis 1975, date de l'independance au Mozambique, le portugais a ete choisi comme langue officielle ; il est essentiellement parle en milieu urbain, par des locuteurs ayant pour langue maternelle une langue de la famille bantoue. L'A. retrace les elements de l'histoire du Mozambique qui expliquent la situation actuelle du portugais dans ce pays (langue urbaine + langue seconde) et decrit brievement les caracteristiques grammaticales et morphosyntaxiques du portugais du Mozambique, soulevant la question de la norme a enseigner dans les ecoles
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2004
Revista da ABRALIN, 2017
Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as ev... more Neste artigo, assumindo que a mudança linguística é gerida pela aquisição, argumenta-se que as evidências de uma língua que permitem estabelecer as propriedades da sua gramática são analisadas de forma diferente, consoante essa língua é adquirida como língua materna (L1) ou como língua segunda (L2). A razão para esta diferença é que na aquisição de L2 as evidências da gramática da língua alvo podem ser ambíguas em casos em que, quando essa mesma língua é adquirida como L1, não existe ambiguidade. Para ilustrar este argumento, serão apresentados dois estudos de caso sobre o Português de Moçambique, uma variedade não-nativa adquirida por falantes de L1s bantu. Estes estudos de caso mostram que as evidências geradas pela gramática do Português europeu podem fazer emergir valores de parâmetro ‘errados/novos’ que, embora não existentes no sistema gramatical original, são perfeitamente legítimos do ponto de vista da gramática das L1s dos falantes. Em ambos os casos, embora os novos valore...