Unidades greco-latinas na língua portuguesa

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Rui Abel
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2005.3935

In contemporary Portuguese, we find a large number of foreign morpholexical units (bases and affixes). These units that are essentially from Greek and Latin origin coexist with native units and, frequently, establish with these relations of complementary distribution (cf. mão/manu-al; cão/can-il; lei/leg-al; presidente/ presidênc-ia; livro/biblio-, etc.). The linguistic analysis of this kind of morpholexical alternations raise some theoretical issues, namely those of relationships between synchrony and diachrony and the type of treatment (morphological, phonological and/or lexical) that can be proposed for allomorphy and/or suppletion. What is the nature of these alternations? What grammatical component is responsible for its processing? We will consider that the phenomena of allomorphy (suppletive and non-suppletive) that affect morpholexical units are morphologically governed; therefore, its treatment can and should be included in the domain of morphology. However, given that these variation phenomena affect the signifier of some lexical units, they also admit a phonological and/or lexical treatment, showing the interaction between these grammatical components and morphology.