Workshop on Brazilian Portuguese

An international workshop on contact linguistics focusing on features found in Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese as well as creole and African languages (but not European Portuguese) was held at the University of Coimbra on October 15, 2009. It was organized by Prof. John Holm of Coimbra University and a visiting post-doctoral researcher, Prof. Marcia Oliveira of the University of São Paulo so that some of their post-graduate students could meet and discuss their work. The workshop included the following speakers:

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Prof. John Holm (Coimbra): Substrate influence on the partial restructuring of Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese

Prof. Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira (São Paulo): WH Questions e Foco em caboverdiano (e outras línguas crioulas) e português brasileiro – similaridades com construções do oeste africano

Liliana Inverno (Coimbra): The verb phrase in Angolan Vernacular Portuguese: evidence of substrate influence

Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos (São Paulo): Apontamentos sobre a periferia esquerda no Portugues Brasileiro e Portugues Angolano: construções WH

Incanha Intumbo (Coimbra): A variação étnica do crioulo guineense

Wânia Miranda (São Paulo): Quantificação em caboverdiano

Bart Jacobs (Coimbra & LMU Munich): The Upper Guinea Creole origins of Papiamentu

Ednalvo Apóstolo Campos (São Paulo): O dativo de terceira pessoa em português brasileiro: recurso morfológico ou lexical?

Patrícia Viera Machado (Coimbra): Clause structure in Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese.

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The presentations were followed by lunch and a tour of Coimbra's historical campus.