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By Milton M. Azevedo

ISBN-10: 0521801265

ISBN-13: 9780521801263

ISBN-10: 0521805155

ISBN-13: 9780521805155

This available 2005 e-book offers a finished creation to the linguistic constitution of Portuguese. sincerely organised, it covers the significant issues of syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, and explores the social and old history of Portuguese, its improvement and unfold on the earth, and comparable sociolinguistic matters reminiscent of dialect version and language making plans. additionally it is a bankruptcy on Portuguese in Brazil, the place nearly eighty% of Portuguese audio system dwell. Assuming little or no past wisdom of linguistic terminology, Portuguese: A Linguistic advent is designed to aid intermediate and complex scholars of Portuguese know the way the language capabilities in any respect degrees, and to offer scholars of linguistics an invaluable start line for paintings at the constitution of Portuguese. holding linguistic idea to a minimal, it specializes in providing the linguistic evidence in a transparent and lucid manner, supplying an invaluable worldwide evaluate of the Portuguese language and its surrounding issues.

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