Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese / Charlotte Galves -- Research on L2 varieties of European languages: from descriptive to formal grammars / Perpétua Gonçalves -- Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil / Dinah Callou -- Portuguese and African languages in Mozambique: a sociolinguistic perspective / Feliciano Chimbutane -- Angolan Portuguese: its historical development and current sociolinguistic setting / Liliana Inverno -- Cabo verde: portraying a speech community / Amsslia de Melo Lopes -- From Creoles to Portuguese: language shift in São Tomé and Prøncipe / Tjerk Hagemeijer -- Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese / Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Laura Álvarez López -- The Africa-Brazil continuum: the case of passives and impersonal constructions / Margarida Petter, Esmeralda Vailati Negrão and Evani Viotti -- Language contact and variation in Cape Verde and São Tomé and Prøncipe / Nélia Alexandre and Rita Gonçalves -- The agreement continuum in urban samples of African, Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese / Silvia Figueiredo Brandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.