The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters  focusing on the  key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition.

Authored by an international team of scholars, this Handbook introduces advanced students and scholars to the essential aspects of diversity across the world s languages. The first work of its kind in this growing field of research, The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics  is sure to become an indispensable reference work for linguists across the research spectrum.

Leo Wetzels holds the chair of Romance languages and Amazonian languages at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and was a Research Director at the Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (LPP), CNRS/Sorbonne–Nouvelle in Paris. He is Editor–in–Chief of Probus, International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics.

João Costa is Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Sergio Menuzzi is Professor at the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.