Um estudo diacrônico sobre a produtividade dos sufixos -ista e -eiro a partir da análise de jornais do séc. XVII ao XX

Abstract

Aiming to expand the studies related to the formation of words by suffix derivation, this work seeks to diachronically analyze the aspects related to the productivity of the suffixes -ista and -eiro in Portuguese; both competing in the formation of agentive nouns. Viaro (2012, s.d.) evidences, from data obtained in dictionaries, the fact that the suffix -eiro, until the 18th century, was more productive when compared to -ista. This picture, however, was inverted in the 19th century, in which the -ista became the most productive. To contribute to this study, the occurrences of words formed with the respective suffixes in newspapers of 17th to 20th century will be verified, adopting a diachronic perspective on these objects, in order to investigate the factors responsible for this change. Finally, for data analysis, concepts of distributed morphology will be applied, which uses syntactic processes to explain the construction of words (FIGUEIREDO; MINUSSI, 2021; OLIVEIRA, 2009; PEDERNEIRA, 2010; SCHER, 2017; SILVA; MEDEIROS, 2016).