Hummel / dos Santos Lopes Address in Portuguese and Spanish

Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-070123-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hummel, Martin

dos Santos Lopes, Célia

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Hummel
, Universität Graz, Österreich;
Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes
, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasilien.

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