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European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: an overview on word order
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The two main varieties of Portuguese are European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese
(BP), the official languages of Portugal and Brazil. With the advent of the Principles and
Parameters theory and the revival of historical and comparative grammar in Portugal and in Brazil,
linguists have started to reveal parametric differences between the two varieties, and not merely
phonological and lexical distinctions, which would define the two varieties as merely two dialects
of the same language.
According to Tarallo (1993) the main changes that gave rise to Brazilian Portuguese started to
appear clearly by the end of the 19th century in written language, but were probably already there
in the spoken modality since the end of the 18th century, when the social and historical factors
were favorable to the changes.
This chapter will present a comparative description of word order in the two varieties, starting,
in section 2, with the surface similarities which underlie most of the mutual comprehension
between the Portuguese and the Brazilians. Section 3, will describe a major difference in the
grammar of the two varieties, namely the placement of clitic pronouns. Section 4 will describe the
particularities of word order in declarative sentences. Section 5 will deal with word order
differences in wh-questions and contrastive focus structures. We will finish with some
conclusions.
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Kato, Mary A. & Ana Maria Martins 2016. European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: an overview on word order. In: Leo Wetzels, Sergio Menuzzi & João Costa (eds.), The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. 15-40.