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- The importance of prefixes in the identification of postverbal nounsPublication . Rodrigues, Alexandra SoaresIn Portuguese, besides suffixed deverbal nouns, there are deverbal nominal products with no derivational suffixes, which we will call ‘postverbal nouns’. One of the problems concerned with postverbal nouns is that there are some difficulties in distinguishing them from nouns that function as base words to verbs constructed with no derivational suffixes.
- Portuguese converted deverbal nouns: constraints on their basesPublication . Rodrigues, Alexandra SoaresConversion 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