The cruciality of phonology: another gaze on blends in Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2023.v19n2a60402Keywords:
morfologia, fonologia, blends, sílaba, pé métricoAbstract
This text intends to develop an analysis of lexical blends in Brazilian Portuguese departing from another point-of-view than what has been chosen by Nóbrega e Minussi (2015). In their endeavour, rooted in Distributed Morphology’s framework, they defend a premise that phonology in the blends happens as epiphenomenon of pragmatic pressures that enforce the lexical-blend formation. In this sense, we claim, as in reply to them, that phonology is crucial as to this word-formation process, understanding, first and foremost, that semantics is the base for formation of all words invented in the languages. In order to account for it, we argue in favour of the elementary role of syllable and metrical foot as prosodic domains (basing our analysis on Prosodic Phonology (ITO; MESTER, 2009)) for this morphophonological process, considering separately the two subtypes of lexical blends in Brazilian Portuguese, ‘phonological’ (counting syllable as its prosodic domain) and ‘morphological’ (counting metrical foot as its prosodic domain), once ‘semantic blends’ (see MINUSSI; NÓBREGA (2014) for this specific tripartite taxonomy) actually are not blends. The data analysed here are extracted by the works across this text which we are debating with.
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