Leo Wetzels is Professor Emeritus of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he held the chair of Romance languages and Amazon languages until July 2017. Since September 2017 he acts as a visiting Professor at the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil and, since January 2019, as an invited researcher at the EHESS in Paris, France. He is Editor-in-Chief of Probus, International Journal of Romance Linguistics.

João Costa is Professor of Linguistics at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He served as Secretary of State of Education in the Portuguese Government (2015-2019).

Sergio Menuzzi is Professor at the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is also the current director of the Faculty of Letters in the same university, and has been a researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) since 2004.

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.
* Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages
* Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics
* Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics
* Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike
* Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

Notes on Contributors vii
1 History and Current Setting 1
Maria Teresa Brocardo and Celia Regina dos Santos Lopes
2 European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: An Overview on Word Order 15
Mary Aizawa Kato and Ana Maria Martins
3 Portuguese in Contact 41
Ana Maria Carvalho and Dante Lucchesi
4 A Comparative Study of the Sounds of European and Brazilian Portuguese: Phonemes and Allophones 56
Gladis Massini-Cagliari, Luiz Carlos Cagliari, and Wayne J. Redenbarger
5 Phonological Processes Affecting Vowels: Neutralization, Harmony, and Nasalization 69
Leda Bisol and João Veloso
6 Syllable Structure 86
Gisela Collischonn and W. Leo Wetzels
7 Main Stress and Secondary Stress in Brazilian and European Portuguese 107
José Magalhães
8 The Phonology-Syntax Interface 125
Raquel S. Santos and Marina Vigário
9 Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese 141
Sónia Frota and João Antônio de Moraes
10 The Phonology and Morphology of Word Formation 167
Alina Villalva and Carlos Alexandre Goncalves
11 The Morphology and Phonology of Inflection 188
Luiz Carlos Schwindt and W. Leo Wetzels
12 Clitic Pronouns: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax 210
Ana R. Luís and Georg A. Kaiser
13 The Null Subject Parameter and the Structure of the Sentence in European and Brazilian Portuguese 234
Ines Duarte and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva
14 The Structure of DPs 254
Ana Maria Brito and Ruth E. V. Lopes
15 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Relatives and Clefts 275
Carlos Mioto and Maria Lobo
16 Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese 294
Sonia Cyrino and Gabriela Matos
17 Passives and Se Constructions 318
Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes
18 Binding and Pronominal Forms in Portuguese 338
Sergio Menuzzi and Maria Lobo
19 The Semantics of DPs 356
Marcelo Barra Ferreira and Clara Nunes Correia
20 Lexical Semantics: Verb Classes and Alternations 374
Márcia Cançado and Anabela Gonçalves
21 Tense and Aspect: A Survey 392
Rodolfo Ilari, Maria Fátima Oliveira, and Renato Miguel Basso
22 Mood and Modality 408
Rui Marques and Roberta Pires de Oliveira
23 Some Issues in Negation in Portuguese 425
Scott A. Schwenter
24 Discourse Markers 441
Ana Cristina Macário Lopes
25 From Latin to Portuguese: Main Phonological Changes 457
D. Eric Holt
26 Main Morphosyntactic Changes and Grammaticalization Processes 471
Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes and Maria Teresa Brocardo
27 Main Syntactic Changes from a Principle-and-Parameters View 487
Charlotte Galves and Anthony Kroch
28 Main Current Processes of Phonological Variation 504
Celeste Rodrigues and Dermeval da Hora
29 Main Current Processes of Morphosyntactic Variation 526
Maria Marta Pereira Scherre and Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte
30 Acquisition of Phonology 545
Giovana Ferreira-Gonçalves and Maria João Freitas
31 Acquisition of Portuguese Syntax 562
João Costa and Ruth E. V. Lopes
32 Second Language Acquisition 578
Ana Madeira
Index 591