Brazilian Portuguese

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LINGUISTIC CHRISTMAS – Vol. 2

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I think we can all agree that if there’s one thing that’s better than a compilation album, it’s the second volume of a compilation album! Back in 2020, I brought you this collection of Christmas songs in languages and dialects you might not be used to hearing them in, and now I’m back with a whole new batch! No matter if you are a Christmas song fanatic, or if you roll your eyes and turn down the volume when “All I Want for Christmas is You” starts playing, this list is sure to bring you something new and fresh to spice up your Christmas playlist! This is: NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LINGUISTIC CHRISTMAS – Vol. 2!

Jólakötturinn (Icelandic)

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Fieldwork in a maroon community in Brazil – an interview with Ana Paulla Braga Mattos

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[This blog post is part of a three-way interview between Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Jeroen Willemsen and Ana Paulla Braga Mattos.]

Ana Paulla Braga Mattos is a PhD-researcher at Aarhus University. She conducted fieldwork on Kalunga, an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese variety spoken in the state of Goiás in Brazil. She has one publication about Kalunga coming out soon with the De Gruyter series on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, and another paper comparing Kalunga and other language varieties from the Portuguese-speaking world submitted. She is currently writing about sentential negation in Kalunga Portuguese. We interviewed her in Aarhus about her experiences as a fieldworker.

Could you briefly summarise your descriptive project and the fieldwork you conducted?

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