Um estudo sobre produtividade e renovação lexical: o uso de -íneo no português brasileiro

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the productivity, from a morphological perspective, of the X-íneo constructions, on the social media Instagram, focusing on its contribution to the lexical renewal of the brazilian portuguese, and it has the following specific objectives: i) describe the structure of the lexical items with the -íneo suffix, using Word Formation Rules; ii) investigate the social aspects that may condition the usage and the productivity of the -íneo suffix on the social media; iii) create a corpus of lexical items with the -íneo suffix collected of Instagram, as a way to register this phenomenon in the current synchrony. In order to do that, using the theoretical principle of linguistic variation and linguistic change (LABOV, 2008 [1972]) and the Lexical Morphology theoretical-methodological assumptions (Aronoff, 1976; Basilio, 1980), we analyzed a corpus of 128 data from the Catioro Reflexivo profile, on Instagram, collected between july and december 2023. The obtained results indicate the productivity of the -íneo suffix, in the virtual space, with regard to the potential for creating new words, especially when affixed to noun and adjective bases. In regarding of the social aspects, we verified that the usage of the -íneo suffix are influenced by extralinguistic factors: i) the usage of the -íneo suffix is preponderant among women; ii) the themes verified in the usage of the suffix involve the central topic of the profile @catioro.reflexivo: items of/for animals in general. Finally, it is worth mentioning that neologisms formed by addition of the -íneo suffix are examples of lexical renewal, given that it is a permanent phenomenon that materializes itself by the speaker’s lexical competence, that is capable of creating new words based on internalized knowledge of formation rules.