Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares2011-03-092011-03-092004Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares (2004). Portuguese converted deverbal nouns: constraints on their bases. In International Conference on Deverbal Nouns. Lillehttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/3607Conversion 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 VOWELengMorphologyWord formationconference object