A Erosão Sufixal dos Italianos Cultos en Contato com o Português Brasileiro (PB)

Abstract

This paper discusses the mechanisms of suffix loss through attrition in the speech of educated Italians after long-drawn contact with Brazilian Portuguese Baes on a spoken corpus of some 50.000 words and 13 informants, its is diastratically; diatopically and diaphasically homogeneous. The cases of suffixal loss as regards word formation rules and the suffixal productivity of both languages were investigated. The conclusion show a non casual loss affecting the least productive suffixes, particularly when the stem is identical and suffixation is different, but only if more than one conditioning factor concurs (typicality, productiviity, interference, simplification to a single possibility from a number of variatns).