Designação da naturalidade de norte a sul de Portugal através da sufixação

Abstract

Denonyms are characterized in Portuguese by a profusion of suffixes (cf., for example, -ano, -eiro, -ejo, -ense, -ino, in alcochetano, cartaxeiro alcoutenejo, alcobacense, abrantino, from Alcochete, Cartaxo, Alcoutim, Alcobaça and Abrantes), a distribution that, apparently, is not predictable, and added to this is the existence of variants such as alcacerense / salaciano (Alcácer do Sal), or paivense / paivoto (Castelo de Paiva). The corpus that supports the analysis is made up of the designations of the natives of all Portuguese municipalities (278 on the mainland, 11 in Madeira and 19 in the Azores). Following Plag (1999), we seek to determine the suffixal rivalry in the formations exemplified above, assuming in advance that the competition between morphological processes and the existence of allomorphs is not something uncommon (Bauer 2001: 71). It is intended, therefore, to contribute to the description and a broader systematization of the word-formation processes of complex names that express 'naturalness'.