Address in Portuguese and Spanish: Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Address in Portuguese and Spanish

Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction

Edited by: Martin Hummel and Célia dos Santos Lopes
Funded by: FWF

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110701234

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The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history—e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel colonization of the Americas by Portugal and Spain; the long-term transformation from a feudal to a democratic system—in which crucial moments in the diachrony of address took place. To give one example, empirical data show that the puzzling late spread of Sp. usted ‘you (formal, polite)’ and Pt. você ‘you’ across America can be explained for both languages by the role of the political and military colonial administration. To explore these new insights, the volume relies on an innovative methodology, as it links traditional downstream diachrony with upstream diachronic reconstruction based on synchronic variation. Including theoretical reflections as well as fine-grained empirical studies, it brings together the most relevant authors in the field.

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Martin Hummel, University of Graz, Austria; Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Célia dos Santos Lopes and Martin Hummel Open Access Download PDF	1
Diachronic research on address in Portuguese and Spanish Martin Hummel Open Access Download PDF	7
Forms of address in the south-western Sprachbund of the Iberian Peninsula One hundred years of evolution in western Andalusian Spanish and European Portuguese Víctor Lara Bermejo Open Access Download PDF	71
Forms of address from the Ibero-Romance perspective A brief history of Brazilian voceamento Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes, Leonardo Lennertz Marcotulio and Thiago Laurentino de Oliveira Open Access Download PDF	111
Variation and change in the second person singular pronouns tu and você in Santa Catarina (Brazil) Izete Lehmkuhl Coelho and Christiane Maria Nunes de Souza Open Access Download PDF	155
Forms of address in São Paulo A historical approach Vanessa Martins do Monte Open Access Download PDF	207
Variation in the paradigms of tu and você Subject and complements in letters from Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1860–1989 Márcia Cristina de Brito Rumeu Open Access Download PDF	227
Retracing the historical evolution of the Portuguese address pronoun você using synchronic variationist data Gunther Hammermüller Open Access Download PDF	251
The loss of vosotros in American Spanish Virginia Bertolotti Open Access Download PDF	291
Vuestra atención, por favor ‘your attention, please’. Some remarks on the usage and history of plural vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish (Peru) Philipp Dankel and Miguel Gutiérrez Maté Open Access Download PDF	317
Prescriptive and descriptive norms in second person singular forms of address in Argentinean Spanish vos, usted, tú María Marta García Negroni and Silvia Ramírez Gelbes Open Access Download PDF	361
Addressing in two presidential election debates in Mexico (1994 and 2012) Forms and functions María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop Open Access Download PDF	385
The European roots of the present-day Americanism su merced Calderon Campos, Miguel Garcia-Godoy and Maria Teresa Garcia-Godoy Open Access Download PDF	413
Linguistic change and social transformation The spread of tuteo in Restoration Spain and the Second Republic (1875–1939) Isabel Molina Martos Open Access Download PDF	443

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists; Language Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 488
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 20
- Line drawings: 16
- Tables: 85
- Coloured Tables: 8
Keywords: Forms of address; Spanish; Portuguese; pragmatics

eBook

Published: July 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110701234

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110690262