Study of augmentative and diminutive nouns in Archaic Portuguese)

Abstract

This paper aims to present the study of augmentative and diminutive words in Archaic Portuguese (AP), through the observation of prosodic phenomena triggered by the
morphophonological process of grade suffixes attachment: -inno and its variations for the diminutive, and –on(a) for the augmentative in Galician Portuguese of 13th century. We intend to discuss the question of the prosodic status of augmentative and diminutive forms in AP as simple forms (one main lexical stress) or compounds (two lexical stresses). Thus the mapping and the analysis of prosodic phenomena in AP aim to contribute to a more general description of the phonological component in that moment of Portuguese language.