Comparative study of the suffixes -s/ção and -mento in deverbal nouns formation in European Portuguese

• Grant number: 15/25331-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: February 15, 2016
• End date: May 14, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Soares da Costa
• Grantee: Gislene da Silva
• Supervisor: Alina Maria Santos Martires Villalva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/04178-4 - Morphophonological processes triggered by the suffixes -s/ção and -mento in the formation of deverbal nouns in Portuguese of Araraquara/SP and Araxá/MG, BP.MS

Abstract

The work entitled Comparative study on -are suffixes / tion and -mento in deverbal nouns formation in European Portuguese has as main objective to make a study of the lexical productivity in deverbal nouns formation in a corpus made up of a European Portuguese sample extracted from the CRPC - Portuguese Contemporâneo1 Reference Corpus. Through this study, we intend to verify which of these two suffixes is more productive in the formation of deverbal names present in the selected corpus. This work is relevant to the understanding of how the formation of new words is carried out in European Portuguese, based on the choice between the two affixes selected to the research. In addition, we will seek to understand if there are differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese regarding the choice of one or another suffix in the formation of deverbal names. (AU)