É morfologia?

Abstract

This article focuses on two aspects pointed out as attributes of blends and acronyms: they are not universal and they are intentional. Their nonuniversality derives from the necessity of a writing system. The intentionality is related to the search of euphony. Both aspects are in the origin of a discussion if blending and acroyimization are morphological processes. If morphology is understood as the mental system involved in word formation (Aronoff & Fudeman, 2005: 239), we have to consider the high probability of a new acronym, specially if an initialism. The high probability makes almost any sequence of letters a potential word in Portuguese. On that perspective is rather strange to say that those processes fit badly as morphological processes

Keywords

• word formation and word creation
• non-universal process
• intentional process
• morphology
• acronyms
• blends