Over the last two decades, empirical methods have become increasingly prominent in linguistics. Even traditionally more introspective theoretical frameworks have begun to embrace empirical methods to test their hypotheses. This special collection unites works applying state of the art empirical methods to the study of Portuguese and its varieties, to highlight the applicability of these methods to Portuguese linguistics. In doing so, this collection aims to show the potential and the possible limitations of these methods.
This special collection brings together contributions on different varieties of Portuguese from the subfields of phonology, morpho-syntax, syntax and semantics, using a variety of empirical methods: The methods range from classic corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic field methods to psycholinguistic experiments. The aim of this collection is to illustrate how these methods can be applied to the study of Portuguese in all linguistic subfields. By explicitly addressing how empirical methods contribute to furthering our understanding of Portuguese linguistics, we want to increase awareness for empirical methods and their applicability to the study of Portuguese, and ultimately encourage researchers to make greater use of them.
Guest editors:
Irene Fally, University of Vienna, irene.fally@univie.ac.at
Pamela Goryczka, University of Vienna, pamela.goryczka@univie.ac.at
Anna Kocher, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, anna.kocher@ku.de
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/JPL.collection.584
Editorial
Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar
Irene Fally, Anna Kocher and Pamela Goryczka
2024-05-24 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2024
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Research Paper
Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese
Mikołaj Nkollo
2022-06-07 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2022
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Lexical access in Portuguese stress
Guilherme Duarte Garcia and Natália Brambatti Guzzo
2022-07-15 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2022
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Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke, Jacopo Torregrossa and Daniel Weingärtner
2022-10-13 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2022
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
2023-03-15 Volume 22 • Issue 1 • 2023
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Clustering emotions in Portuguese
Diana Santos and Alberto Simões
2022-11-08 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2022
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The Portuguese Pluperfect: Development and the effect of auxiliary ter generalization
William Robert Balla-Johnson
2022-10-24 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2022
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Collections
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Emergent and future change in Contemporary Portuguese grammar
Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar
Possession and location in African varieties of Portuguese
Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology
Early Western and Portuguese descriptors of the Indian languages from the 16th century onwards