Blending, crossing or lexical fusion in Portuguese: structural patterns and (dis)similitude regarding composition

Authors

  • Graça Rio-Torto Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v16i1p07-29

Keywords:

Blending, Fusion, Composition, Word-formation, Neologisms, Portuguese language.

Abstract

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 units and the non-concatenative character of the merging – as well as (ii) the similarities regarding the patterns of the internal organization of the lexical units and the classes of categorical relations between the input units are analyzed.

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Published

2014-07-01

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Papers

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How to Cite

Blending, crossing or lexical fusion in Portuguese: structural patterns and (dis)similitude regarding composition. (2014). Filologia E Linguística Portuguesa, 16(1), 07-29. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v16i1p07-29