<i>Carurivis, camarivis and carnavivis</i>: <i>X-ivis</i> morphological constructions among speakers of Salvador-BA and the evidence of a liquid and complex lexicon

  • Natival Almeida Simões Neto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n33.5260
Keywords: construction morphology, cognitive linguistics, neologisms, modernity, complexity

Abstract

This work interprets the functioning of the X-ivis scheme, which involves carurivis, camarivis and carnavivis. These constructions were observed in texts by speakers from Salvador (Bahia) and are used in order to avoid pornographic rhymes based on the oxytones ending in [u], [ãw] and [aw]. The analysis of this phenomenon demands the review of concepts well settled in the morphological and lexicological literature, besides requiring a lexical approach that take into account the liquidity of modernity and the complexity of the systems. With regard to the theoretical contribution, the premises of cognitive linguistics were the main guiding principles of this discussion, especially the prototype theory, construction grammar, sociocognitivism and construction morphology. 

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Almeida Simões Neto, N. (1). <i>Carurivis, camarivis and carnavivis</i>: <i>X-ivis</i&gt; morphological constructions among speakers of Salvador-BA and the evidence of a liquid and complex lexicon. Signo & Seña, (33), 93-123. https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n33.5260
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No 33 (2018)
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