Tipo: Innovation and change in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper provides an empirical account of the synchronic variation in the use of the noun TIPO (‘type’, ‘kind’)in the Brazilian Portuguese vernacular. Innovation in its use, first documented by Bittencourt (1999), suggests TIPO may be performing functions beyond those of a noun. To investigate inn...
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Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Diacrítica |
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| Online Access: | http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/421 |