Promotional Information

The first book published in the United States on Portuguese linguistics, Romance Linguistics presents the best recent work in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse.

Table of Contents

Introduction Phonology Stress and Rhythm in Brazilian Portuguese by Roy C. Major A Spectrographic Analysis of Portuguese Stressed and Unstressed Vowels by Willis C. Fails and J. Halvor Clegg Morphology Nomes Aumentativos Denominais em Portugues by Maria Carlota Amaral Paixao Rosa Capeverdean Diminutives by Donaldo P. Macedo Syntax Tense and Binding Theory in Portuguese by Jose Meireles and Eduardo Raposo Antecedents and Empty Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese by Dana Wheeler Pragmatics Topico e Ordem Vocabular by Maria Luiza Braga Brazilian Portuguese Directives and a Hierarchy of Strategies for Politeness by Dale April Koike Text and Discourse Analysis The Definite Article in Portuguese: A Discourse Oriented Approach by Celia Mendonca Our December by Haj Ross Index

About the Author

DALE A. KOIKE is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin and is the author of Language and Social Relationships in Brazilian Portuguese: The Pragmatics of Politeness (1992).

DONALDO P. MACEDO is Director of the Graduate Bilingual/ESL Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Macedo is the author (with Paolo Freire) of Literacy: Reading the World and Reading the Word (1987) and many other books and articles.