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Gomes, Christina Abreu – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Focuses on the directionality observed in the processes of change and acquisition of the prepositions that replaced Latin cases in the speech of Rio de Janeiro and in the contact Portuguese spoken by Brazilian Indians in the region of Xingu. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations