Contemporary Research in Sign Languages of the Lusophone World Contemporary Research in Sign Languages of the Lusophone World

Published: 20/05/24

This special collection focuses on the linguistic diversity of sign languages across Lusophone countries. Despite sharing Portuguese as their national/official language, the sign languages used by deaf communities within these countries are in fact, often unrelated and unintelligible to each other, many with highly distinct historical origins and subsequent patterns of diffusion. Sign languages within Lusophone-speaking countries have only garnered attention from linguistic research within the last few decades as grammatical systems couched within the visual modality. We invite researchers to submit original contributions investigating sign languages from these regions, with contributions from theoretical, formal, and/or descriptive perspectives. Papers addressing different fields of linguistics, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and interfaces, are welcome.

Deadline for paper submission: 3rd March, 2025

 

Guest editors:

Guilherme Lourenço, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, guilhermelourenco@ufmg.br

Ana Mineiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, amineiro@ucp.pt

Andrew Nevins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / University College London, a.nevins@ucl.ac.uk

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Emergent and future change in Contemporary Portuguese grammar Emergent and future change in Contemporary Portuguese grammar

Published: 08/06/22

This collection explores the possibility of extrapolating change within synchronic data from Contemporary Portuguese. The papers provide indications as to the future development of the grammar(s) of the world language Portuguese in the 21st century.

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Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar

Published: 13/05/21

This special collection follows an ongoing trend towards data based research in linguistics. It unites works applying state of the art empirical methods to the study of Portuguese and sheds light on potentials and limitations of this type of research.

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Possession and location in African varieties of Portuguese Possession and location in African varieties of Portuguese

Published: 09/10/20

This volume includes five papers on aspects of the syntax and semantics of nativizing African varieties of Portuguese (Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé), assessing the factors that underlie language change and variation in multilingual settings from a comparative perspective.

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Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology

Published: 25/02/20

This special collection brings together laboratory researchers from different continents working on various aspects of Portuguese phonology. The topics discussed range from classical, such as nasalization and vowel reduction, to interdisciplinary, such as L1 and L2 acquisition.

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Early Western and Portuguese descriptors of the Indian languages from the 16th century onwards Early Western and Portuguese descriptors of the Indian languages from the 16th century onwards

Published: 16/11/18

The five papers in this volume focus on the grammaticisation and the circulation of descriptions of South Asian languages produced by linguists avant la lettre from the 16th century onwards.

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