Rodrigues, Alexandra SoaresRodrigues, Pedro João2019-01-282019-01-282018Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares; Rodrigues, Pedro João (2018). Cross-paradigms or the interfaces of word-formation patterns: evidence from Portuguese. Lingue e Linguaggio. ISSN 1720-9331. 17:2, p. 273-2881720-9331http://hdl.handle.net/10198/18529A paradigmatic approach has been applied to derivational morphology in recent studies (Štekauer 2014; Antoniová & Štekauer 2015; Blevins 2016). One of those studies (Rodrigues 2016) proposes the notion of cross-paradigms to describe the intersection of process-organised with affix-organised paradigms. This paper brings psycholinguistic evidence to the mental status of cross-paradigms, based on experimental data obtained from native Portuguese speakers. Cross-paradigms reveal the dynamic nature of the mental lexicon, as Elman (2011) and Libben (2014; 2015) have claimed.engDerivational paradigmsMental patternsCross-paradigmsPortuguesejournal article10.1418/91869