New word formation process

analysis of the term Covid (-19) in the Priberam Dictionary of the Portuguese Language

Authors

  • Júlio Luciano Canhinguiquine Escola Pedagógica da Universidade Lueji A'Nkonde

Keywords:

Covid (-19), Word formation, Derivation, Composition, Priberam Dictionary

Abstract

This research emerges as an urgency for communication experienced throughout the pandemic. In this urgency, we detect several new lexical units that permeate the common discourse of the media, social networks, and other means, such as dictionaries. The present study aims to analyze the process of formation of new words from the term Covid (-19), identifying the grammatical class and meaning. This is qualitative research, favoring the descriptive method. For data collection and analysis, the Priberam Portuguese online dictionary was used. The formation of new words in Portuguese can occur by derivation or by composition, as well as through other resources such as vocabulary abbreviation, onomatopoeias, acronyms, and hybridism. The results indicate that the formation of new words from the term covid (-19), according to the Priberam Dictionary of the Portuguese Language, it occurs by anticovid prefix derivation; suffix covidário, covidiano, covidico; and by juxtaposed composition and/or covid-drive hybridism. Among the new words, some assume the class of adjectives, such as covidiano, covídico and anticovid, and others maintain the class of nouns such as the primitive word covid (-19), as is the case of covidário and covid-drive; the analysis of the new words formed also makes it possible to perceive that they all assume a new meaning in relation to the original word covid (-19).

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Author Biography

Júlio Luciano Canhinguiquine, Escola Pedagógica da Universidade Lueji A'Nkonde

Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade de Évora, Portugal; Mestre em Estudos Lusófonos, pela Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal; Licenciado em Ensino da Língua Portuguesa, pela Escola Superior Pedagógica da Lunda Norte, Universidade Lueji A'Nkonde, Angola. Docente universitário de Morfologia e Sintaxe da Língua Portuguesa, Técnicas de Expressão da Língua Portuguesa, História da Língua Portuguesa.

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Published

12-11-2024

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Canhinguiquine, J. L. (2024). New word formation process: analysis of the term Covid (-19) in the Priberam Dictionary of the Portuguese Language. NJINGA&SEPÉ: evista nternacional e ulturas, Línguas fricanas rasileiras, 4(Especial II), 53–66. etrieved from https://revistas.unilab.edu.br/index.php/njingaesape/article/view/1224

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Vol. 4 No. Especial II (2024): A Linguística, a Literatura, a educação e outras áreas afins na mesa de debates em favor do avanço da ciência

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Seção I - Artigos inéditos e traduções/interpretações

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