Desgramaticalização de {-inho}

Alcides Fernandes de Lima

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n2p205

Ungrammaticalization of {-inho}

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Alcides Fernandes de Lima Universidade Federal do Pará / Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n2p205

Keywords:

Ungrammaticalization, Linguistic change, Brazilian Portuguese.

Abstract

This paper addresses the process of change in which the {-inho} affix becomes a free form, which sometimes works as an adjective or as a noun. We consider this process as a phenomenon of ungrammaticalization. In fact, if we observe the route of this process, we can see that the variant "-inho", which etymologically comes from the flexional suffix {-inu} in Latin, acquired phonological strengthening with the addition of the segment [z] to its base, and it resemantized into "zinho" which, in some contexts, took the form and function of a name, meaning "individual", "person". This can be summarized as follows: (-inu) > -inho > -zinho > zinho > adj. > subst.

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Alcides Fernandes de Lima, Universidade Federal do Pará / Universidade Federal do Ceará

Possui graduação em Letras e Artes pela Universidade Federal do Pará (1999) e mestrado em Lingüística (área de concentração: Sociolingüística) pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2003). É professor assistente da Universidade Federal do Pará.

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Published

2009-12-15

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LIMA, Alcides Fernandes de. Ungrammaticalization of {-inho}. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 2, p. 205–224, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n2p205. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4925. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2025.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2009): Volume Atemático

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