The inventory and the underlying distribution of theme vowels in the Portuguese noun class/O inventario e a distribuicao subjacente das vogais tematicas na classe dos nomes do Portugues

The paper discusses the underlying distribution and the inventory of theme vowels in the Portuguese noun class. Since it deals with the underlying distribution of theme vowels in both word constitution and derivation, the study not only considers the possibility of attaching suffixes to roots or to...

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Veröffentlicht in:Alfa 2016-07, Vol.60 (2), p.341
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Zusammenfassung:The paper discusses the underlying distribution and the inventory of theme vowels in the Portuguese noun class. Since it deals with the underlying distribution of theme vowels in both word constitution and derivation, the study not only considers the possibility of attaching suffixes to roots or to stems but also adopts the "stem-driven derivation", admitting that the stem is stored in the permanent lexicon. Therefore, the theme vowel is in the basis of the derivation process of the nouns in the language since its subjacency. The observation of Portuguese grammar phenomena has shown that three types of criteria support this position: morphophonological, morphological and semantic ones. Regarding the inventory of nominal theme vowels in Portuguese, the study recognizes the singular behavior in the nouns of the language of the final-unstressed vowel /e/, by comparison with the vowels /o, a/. The vowel /e/ plays two roles; it is an epenthetic vowel and, in a restricted way, a theme vowel with no correlation with the gender whereas vowels /o, a/ are always theme vowels and agree with the gender of the words. KEYWORDS: Theme vowel. Noun class. Underlying distribution. Derivation and its basis. Portuguese Morphophonology. O artigo discute a distribuicao subjacente e o inventario das vogais tematicas da classe dos nomes do portugues. Ao tratar da distribuicao subjacente da vogal tematica na constituicao e na derivacao das palavras, o estudo considera a possibilidade de a combinacao de sufixos ocorrer com raizes ou com temas e adota a derivacao com base no tema, admitindo que o tema esta armazenado no lexico profundo; assim sendo, a vogal tematica esta na base do processo de derivacao dos nomes da lingua desde a subjacencia. Na observacao de fenomenos da gramatica do portugues, tres tipos de criterios dao suporte a essa posicao: criterio morfofonologico, criterio morfologico e criterio semantico. Com relacao ao inventario das vogais tematicas nominais no portugues, o estudo reconhece o comportamento singular, nos nomes da lingua, que mostra a vogal /e/ ao ser comparada com as vogais /o, a/. Enquanto a vogal /e/ mescla dois papeis: vogal epentetica e, de forma restrita, vogal tematica, sem correlacao com o genero, as vogais /o, a/ legitimam-se sempre como vogais tematicas e compactuam com o genero das palavras. (1) PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Vogal tematica. Classe dos nomes. Distribuicao subjacente. Derivacao e sua base. Morfofonologia do portugues.
ISSN:0002-5216