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Title: | Prefixes in the history of Portuguese: a semantic and cognitive approach | Other Titles: | Os prefixos na historia do portugués: unha aproximación semántica e cognitiva | Authors: | Carvalho, Maria José | Keywords: | Derivation and cognition; diachronic derivational morphology; polysemy and derivation; prefixes; Derivación e cognición; morfoloxía derivativa diacrónica; polisemia e derivación; prefixos | Issue Date: | 2015 | metadata.degois.publication.title: | Estudos de Linguistica Galega | metadata.degois.publication.volume: | 8 | metadata.degois.publication.issue: | 0 | Abstract: | Based on a medieval corpus, the article analyzes the
evolution and the historic behavior of the prefixes
a(d)-, re-, en-, des- and es- in certain lexical items, aiming
to assess the semantic and cognitive motivations
of the derivational change, as well as its direction. A
contrast is made between the morpho-semantic variation
of these prefixes in medieval Portuguese and
in modern European Portuguese (including dialectal
varieties), emphasizing questions of productivity, redundancy,
recategorization, polysemy, and semantic
specialization. We conclude that the motivations for
derivational changes, normally semantic and cognitive,
are extremely important, and require the inclusion
of a diachronic perspective and of diatopic variation
in any systematic study on Portuguese derivational
morphology. A partir dun corpus medieval, o artigo analiza a evolución e o comportamento histórico dos prefixos a(d)-, re-, en-, des- e es- en determinadas unidades léxicas, co obxectivo de avaliar a importancia das motivacións semánticas e cognitivas no cambio derivativo, así como de determinar a dirección deste. Establécese unha comparación entre a variación morfosemántica deses prefixos no galego-portugués medieval e no portugués europeo contemporáneo (incluíndo variedades dialectais), incidindo en cuestións de produtividade, redundancia, recategorización, polisemia e especialización semántica. Conclúese que as motivacións para os cambios derivativos, xeralmente semánticas e cognitivas, son extremadamente importantes e requiren a inclusión tanto dunha perspectiva diacrónica como da variación diatópica en calquera estudo sistemático da morfoloxía derivativa do portugués. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/102554 | ISSN: | 1989-578X 1889-2566 |
DOI: | 10.15304/elg.8.2608 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CELGA - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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