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Uma morfo-mania: análise das construções x-mania por meio de um continuum composição-derivação

2013; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/1984-8412.2013v10n1p18

1984-8412

Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves, Heloise Gomes Thompson,

Lexicography and Language Studies

Based on Kastovsky (2009) and Gonçalves (2011a, b), for whom the distinction between the two main word formation processes – compounding and derivation – is not discrete, we present, in this paper, an analysis for mania, particle from Ancient Greek, in order to check the morphological status of formations as 'Luan-mania' ("immoderate passion for the singer Luan Santana") and 'Mengo-mania' ("obsession to the Flamengo, a soccer team"). We intend to check the position in the morphological continuum, suggested by these authors, such formative stands. Based in Gonçalves and Andrade (2012), who propose several empirical criteria to differentiate radicals and affixes, we observe the aspects by which -mania behaves as radical and the aspects by which -mania behaves as suffix.