Niches in derivational morphology: Specialisation of suffixes within the formation of Portuguese deverbal nouns

The aim of this paper is to study the specialisation of affixes following the same wordformation schema. The derivational morphology of Portuguese presents a multiplicity of suffixes that create deverbal nouns with the general meaning of ‘event’/‘result’/‘state’ (Rodrigues 2008). These suffixes ma...

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Main Author: Alexandra Soares Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade do Porto 2019-09-01
Series:Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto
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Online Access:http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL/article/view/6655/6192