Prefixes in the history of Portuguese: a semantic and cognitive approach

Based on a medieval corpus, the article analyzes the evolution and the historic behavior of the prefixes a(d)-, re-, en-, des- and es- in certain lexical items, aiming to assess the semantic and cognitive motivations of the derivational change, as well as its direction...

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Main Author: Maria José Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 2016-01-01
Series:Estudos de Linguistica Galega
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=305646595003