Blending, crossing or lexical fusion in Portuguese: structural patterns and (dis)similitude regarding composition
This paper examines the patterns of blending in Portuguese, based on empirical data from Portuguese from Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal. A parallelism with the composition process is drawn and: (i) the dissimilarities between both processes – particularly those related to the nature of the source u...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/83491 |