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Conversion is one of the mechanisms which are responsible for the formation of deverbal nouns in Portuguese. Portuguese converted deverbal nouns are morphologically characterised by a stem, inherited from the base verb, and a theme vowel (1).
(1) corte ‘cut’-CONVERTED DEVERBAL NOUN
cort ‘to cut’-VERBAL STEM e- NOMINAL THEME VOWEL
voo ‘flight’-CONVERTED DEVERBAL NOUN
vo- ‘to fly’- VERBAL STEM o- NOMINAL THEME VOWEL
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Morphology Word formation
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Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares (2004). Portuguese converted deverbal nouns: constraints on their bases. In International Conference on Deverbal Nouns. Lille