Sociolinguistic aspects of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau

5 Abril 2016, 10:00 Fernando Jorge da Costa de Brissos

- An overview of two African varieties of Portuguese: Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau (historical and sociolinguistic facts);
- The  role of contact with Creole languages (Upper Guinea Creoles: Capeverdean and Kriyol);
- Some (morph-)syntactic aspects of Capeverdean and Kriyol

- Ppt presentation given to students

- Recommended reading (sent to students by e-mail): Thomason, Sarah. 2001. Language Contact: an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Ms.