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History of the Portuguese Language

Objectives

a) To identify Portuguese distinctive features, within the general and, in particular, Hispanic, Romance context, and to relate them with linguistic changes occurred throughout its history.
b) To describe the main changes which occurred throughout the various periods of the history of Portuguese.
c) To identify and to describe linguistic changes which explain diachronic relations between etyma and their derived forms.
d) To acquire basic competences for the analysis of different types of texts, from distinct periods, aiming at their exploration as sources for language history.
e) To relate some of the traits of Contemporary Portuguese variation to aspects of language history.

General characterization

Code

711131056

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Clara Raquel Gonçalves Pinto

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Alkire, T. and C. Rosen. 2010. Romance languages. A historical introduction. Cambridge: CUP.


Brocardo, M. T. 2014. Tópicos de história da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Colibri.


Brocardo, M. T. and C. R. S. Lopes. 2016. History and Current Setting. In W. L.


Wetzels, S. Menuzzi and J. Costa (eds.) The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics. Malden / Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1-14.


Herman, J. 2000. Vulgar Latin. University Park Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Univ Press.


Martins, A. M. 2016. O português numa perspetiva diacrónica e comparativa. In A. M. Martins e E. Carrilho (eds.) Manual de Linguística Portuguesa. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-39.


Teyssier, Paul. 1982. História da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Sá da Costa


Williams, E. B. 1975. Do latim ao português. Fonologia e morfologia históricas da língua portuguesa. Tempo Brasileiro.

Teaching method

Classes combine a more expository/theoretical aspect and a practical dimension, with the regular presence of students being recommended, as well as the development of autonomous work.

Evaluation method

Evaluation methods


2 written tests (50.0% + 50.0%)


Test 1 -


Test 2- 


Exam  (final grade 8 or 9)  -


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Subject matter

i. The emergence of Portuguese


Romance languages as continuation and divergence from Latin. Panromanic changes. Preservation vs.innovation in the primitive area of Portuguese.


ii. The beginning of writing


Transition from writing in Latin to writing in Portuguese - comments and analysis of the first texts written in Portuguese.


iii. Medieval Portuguese


Analysis of remnant texts from the 13th and 14th centuries. Old Portuguese and Middle Portuguese - ongoing and concluded changes in the 15th century. Issues on periodization of Portuguese.


iv. European Portuguese from the 16th century on


Grammars from the 16th and 17th centuries as sources for the history of Portuguese. Innovations from Classical and Modern Portuguese.


v. A historical perspective of Contemporary Portuguese


Dialectal variation of European Portuguese - relation with historical changes. Unity and diversity features in different contexts of use. Brazilian Portuguese - distinctive features with an historical explanation.