African Varieties of Portuguese (AVP)

29 Março 2016, 10:00 • Fernando Jorge da Costa de Brissos

- Statistical data on L1/L2 Portuguese spoken in Africa; problems with the available data.

- Countries where Portuguese is increasingly nativizing (Angola, Moçambique, S. Tomé e Príncipe) and where Portuguese is exclusively a non-native language (Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea)

- The emergence of AVP as a late 19^th/20^th century phenomenon; common and specific sociohistorical factors that have led to an increasing number of L1/L2 Portuguese speakers

- Portuguese in a multilingual environment and language acquisition in contact situations  

- The realization of the indirect object in AVP

 

References are included in the PPt.