Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- 0 Introduction: the state of the art in Brazilian Portuguese linguistics -- 1 Brazilian Portuguese linguistics: an overview -- 2 The social history of Brazilian Portuguese -- 3 The history of linguistic contact underlying Brazilian Portuguese -- 4 Historical phonetics and phonology -- 5 Historical morphology -- 6 Historical syntax -- 7 The history of the lexicon -- 8 The debate on Brazilian and European Portuguese -- 9 Dialectology and linguistic geography -- 10 Sociolinguistics -- 11 Brazilian Portuguese: contemporary language contacts -- 12 Sound-related aspects of Brazilian Portuguese -- 13 Morphology -- 14 Syntax -- 15 Lexicon -- 16 On the history of semantic studies in Brazil -- 17 Spoken vs. written language -- 18 Onomastics and toponomastics -- 19 Linguistic policy and the orthographic agreement -- 20 Psycholinguistic studies: language acquisition and processing -- Index