Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach

‘Nominals’ examines and evaluates inflectional patterns for unproblematic nouns, adjectives, pronouns and demonstratives. The section on suffixal derivation of ordinary nominals evaluates the productivity and markedness of noun and adjective forming suffixes. An entire chapter demonstrates how the suffix +sion++e+ varies in words such na ção ‘nation’ and na cion al ‘national’. Problematic phenomena concerning gender and number occur when specific deriving suffixes attach or fail to attach to spe