34.606, FYI: Language Variation and Change in Portuguese

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Subject: 34.606, FYI: Language Variation and Change in Portuguese

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From: Patricia Amaral [pamaral at indiana.edu]
Subject: Language Variation and Change in Portuguese


Special Issue of Languages on ''Language Variation and Change in
Portuguese''
Guest Editor: Dr Patricia Amaral (Indiana University)

Dear Colleagues,

I invite the submission of contributions to this Special Issue of the
journal ''Languages'', entitled, “Investigating Language Variation and
Change in Portuguese”. The goal of this Special Issue is to showcase
the current research on variation and change in Portuguese, focusing
on morpho-syntactic, semantic or pragmatic phenomena. It will examine
different ways in which the analysis of Portuguese contributes to
current theories of language variation and language change. Work
focusing on variation in time and space, as well as work involving
social and situational factors, on any varieties of Portuguese is
welcome.

In the past decades, several reference works on Portuguese have been
published, providing overviews of the language subsystems and
including descriptions of grammatical structures that display
variation (Wetzels et al. 2016, Martins and Carrilho 2016). Some
studies have provided accounts of specific varieties (e.g., Gonçalves
2010, Bouchard 2017), sociolinguistic analyses of Portuguese from a
variationist perspective (e.g., Malvar and Poplack 2008; Scherre et
al. 2018) or highlighted the role of pragmatic factors constraining
the use of variable structures (e.g., Schwenter and Silva 2002, Posio
2021).  However, there are few entire works devoted to variation in
this language (a notable exception being Barbosa et al. 2017). In
addition, there is a need to build on Portuguese data to examine the
connection between language variation and change, or to reflect upon
the implications of such data to adjudicate between competing theories
of morpho-syntactic and semantic change. This Special Issue aims to
fill this gap. Papers in this issue may, e.g.: (i) explore an instance
of morpho-syntactic variation in a variety of Portuguese, (ii) compare
two or more geographic varieties with respect to a certain phenomenon,
(iii) examine a change in progress, or (iv) analyze the diachronic
development of a feature over time, in one or more varieties. For this
Special Issue, research on the contact between Portuguese and other
languages will not be considered. Papers from different theoretical
frameworks and various methodologies are welcome, as long as the
theoretical question is clearly formulated and the methodological
choices are consistently aligned with the goals of the paper.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words
summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest
Editor (pamaral at indiana.edu) or to the Languages Editorial Office
(languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editor
for the purpose of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the
Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

Tentative completion schedule:

Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2023
Notification of abstract acceptance: 30 April 2023
Full manuscript deadline: 30 September 2023

More information can be found here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/HAXETJT8N2

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)




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