Denominal verbs in Brazilian Portuguese: distinguishing between diachronic and synchronic structures within distributed morphology approach

Recent work on argument structure has shown that there must be a synchronic relation between nouns and derived verbs that can be treated in structural terms. However, a simple phonological/morphological identity or diachronic derivation between a verb and a noun cannot guarantee that there is a deno...

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Main Author: Indaiá de Santana Bassani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2012-04-01
Series:Alfa: Revista de Lingüística
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Online Access:http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4964