Review of Prefixation in contemporary Portuguese Language, by Graça Rio-Torto

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2025.v21n2a67144

Abstract

This text reviews the book entitled Prefixação na língua portuguesa contemporânea [Prefixation in contemporary Portuguese], written by Portuguese linguist Graça Rio-Torto (2019), a leading figure in lexical morphology studies in her country. After four decades of research dedicated to vernacular lexicogenesis, focusing mainly on suffixation and verbalizations of a morphological nature, the author turns, in the aforementioned work, to word formation via prefixation, collecting, improving and systematizing the contributions already presented in previous publications of her authorship (1993, 2014a, 2014b, 2016). The fact that prefixal affixation has always been less studied and systematized than suffixal affixation (Montero Curiel, 1999; Basilio, 2009), despite its undeniable importance in the constitution and renewal of the lexicon, reinforces the importance of the publication for morphological and lexical studies of Portuguese. The review consists of an overview of the work in question, which undoubtedly appears as a preponderant study on prefixation, a morpholexical procedure of clear importance to the processes of constitution and renewal of the Romance vocabulary repertoire.
Keywords: Portuguese Language. Word formation. Prefixation.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Mailson Lopes, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)/CNPq

É Professor Associado do Instituto de Letras da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) e Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Língua e Cultura (PPGLinC/UFBA). Foi Professor Visitante na Facultad de Filosofía y Letras da Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina), onde realizou Estágio Pós-doutoral, com bolsa do CNPq (Processo 201233/2024-0), tendo desenvolvido pesquisa de natureza descritivo-comparativa, diacrônica e aplicada sobre a morfologia lexical nas línguas espanhola e portuguesa. É Doutor em Linguística Histórica (Língua e Cultura) pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, em regime de cotutela oficial com a Universidade de Coimbra (Bolsa PDSE/CAPES), com estudo histórico-comparativo sobre a prefixação no galego-português e no castelhano arcaicos (séculos XIII a XVI). É Mestre em Linguística Histórica (Língua e Cultura) pela UFBA e Licenciado e Bacharel em Letras Vernáculas e Língua Estrangeira Moderna (Espanhol), por essa mesma universidade. Tem interesse investigativo por temas e fenômenos dos domínios da morfologia, semântica, lexicologia e antroponímia de línguas ibero-românicas, além do ensino do Espanhol como língua estrangeira a aprendizes brasileiros.

capa v.21 n.2

Downloads

Published

2025-08-30

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): Cognitive Linguistics: diversity and interfaces on Translation and Interpretation Studies

Section

Book reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2025 Revista Linguí∫tica

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish in the Revista Linguí∫tica agree with the following terms:

The authors maintain their rights, ceding to the journal the right to first publication of the article, simultaneously submitted to a Creative Commons license permitting the sharing with third-parties of published content as long as it mentions the author and its first publication in the Revista Linguí∫tica.

Authors may enter into additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of their published work (for example, posting in online institutional or non-profit repositories, or book chapters) so long as they acknowledge its initial publication in the Revista Linguí∫tica.

 

Licença Creative Commons
The journal Revista Linguí∫tica is published by the Post-Graduate program in Linguistics of UFRJ and employs a Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC).