Concatenative morphology and non-concatenative morphology: from the morphological principle to the prosodic principle

• Autor(a) principal: Bevilacqua, Cleci Regina
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Silva, Fernando Moreno da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/389
• topic: non-concatenative morphology; concatenative morphology; word formation.; morfologia não concatenativa; morfologia concatenativa; formação de palavras.

Morphology is fundamental in the study of word formation processes. It helps us to understand the morphological constituents responsible for word formation. In addition to traditional processes, such as composition and derivation, there are other non-traditional processes, which are based on prosodic principles. Traditional processes belong to concatenative morphology and prosodic processes belong to non-concatenative morphology. Non-traditional processes redefine the traditional concept of “morpheme”, because there are elements (called non-morphemics) that do not satisfy the morpheme conditions defended by grammar, such as meaning and recurrence. In order to understand the conception of these new morphological constituents, in this article, we aim to expose the differences between concatenative and non-concatenative morphologies, using three processes that are based on the morphophonological principle: lexical blend, truncation and acronymization.