The Relationship Between Root and Syntactic Structure in the Semantics of Word Formation in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish

Authors

  • Rafaela do Nascimento Melo Aquino Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2108-7550
  • Isabella Lopes Pederneira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Miriam Lemle Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i45.1117

Keywords:

Exo-skeletal model, Cognate words, Compositionality and non-compositionality in complex words

Abstract

work aimed to observe if it is possible complex words receive new abstract concepts, in view of the syntactic studies about the relation between the derivation of words and their meanings. Following the Exo-skeletal theory, proposed by Borer (2005, 2013,2015a and 2015b), we assume that words with a multiple morphological layers can receive new meanings at any morphological level that will be emerge after the first merge between the root and a functional head. In this work, we will show that data from languages of the same family, such as Brazilian Portuguese (PB) and Spanish (Esp), may present different forms of insertion of conceptual content into complex cognate words. With this
study we can bring to the theory an advance in the understanding of the interface between syntax and semantics.

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Author Biographies

Rafaela do Nascimento Melo Aquino, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutoranda em Linguistica no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Isabella Lopes Pederneira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em Linguística pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguistica da Universidade do Rio de Janeiro

Miriam Lemle, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Professor Titular Emérita da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Coordenadora do Laboratório LIFSS - Laboratório de Interface Sintaxe-Semântica.

Published

2018-08-22

How to Cite

Aquino, R. do N. M., Pederneira, I. L., & Lemle, M. (2018). The Relationship Between Root and Syntactic Structure in the Semantics of Word Formation in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(45), 90–105. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i45.1117

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SEÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA