Truncamento e reduplicação no português brasileiro
This paper investigates the morphology of truncation andreduplication processes in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Truncation(also known as abbreviation) is the word formation process inwhich a word is shortened without loss any meaning. I argue thatthe BP’s truncated forms tend to be disyllabic and the...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Revista de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Online Access: | http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2332 |