Training and interpretation of denominal verbs in Brazilian Portuguese
| Grant number: | 11/10818-5 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| Effective date (Start): | September 26, 2011 |
| Effective date (End): | August 12, 2012 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis |
| Principal Investigator: | Ana Paula Scher |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Scher |
| Host: | Andrew Ira Nevins |
| Home Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | University College London (UCL), England |
Abstract The present research project suggests the analysis of truncated forms such as "forasta", a synonym for "forasteiro", in Brazilian Portuguese (PB), or "cafeta", a synonym for "cafeteria", in Peninsular Spanish (EP), under the Distributed Morphology (MD) perspective, a model proposed in Halle & Marantz (1993), and its most recent developments, presented in Siddiqi (2009) and Embick (2010), for example. Its main aim is to identify, as much as possible, some regularity in this truncated word formation process. It also intends to offer an analysis for the phenomena, based on the MD postulates, among which is the one which says that all word formation processes are syntactic and start in the root. (AU) | |