Experimental study on the nominalizers -ção e -mento
This article describes and analyses morphophonological and morphosyntactic aspects of deverbal nouns formed by the nominalizers –ção and –mento in Brazilian Portuguese, based on an experimental approach. To do so, I developed three wug-tests in order to test the hypothesis that speakers have interna...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8675149 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8675149 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nominalizadores –ção e –mento Vogal temática Estrutura argumental Nominalizers –ção and –mento Theme vowel Argument structure Vocal temática Estructura del argumento |
| Sumario: | This article describes and analyses morphophonological and morphosyntactic aspects of deverbal nouns formed by the nominalizers –ção and –mento in Brazilian Portuguese, based on an experimental approach. To do so, I developed three wug-tests in order to test the hypothesis that speakers have internalized two conditioning factors in the preferential selection of –ção and –mento: (i) the morphophonological factor, i.e. the thematic classes of the verbal bases; (ii) the syntactic factor, i.e. the argument structure type of the verbal bases. The experimental results attest there is a significant correlation between these factors and the choice of nominalizing suffix, as we have found in the lexicon (Freitas 2014). Therefore, taking into account a syntactic model of word formation such as Distributed Morphology (Halle; Marantz 1993; 1994; Embick 2010; among many others), I argue that the argument structure of verbal bases is responsible for the morphophonological and morphosyntactic behaviour of the nouns formed by –ção and –mento. |
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