Abstract:This paper deals with Prof. Mattoso Câmara Júniors concept of word and its identification in the structure of Brazilian Portuguese. Initiallly, I briefly survey the main problems concerning the concept of word in structuralism and its origin; in the central part of the article, I focus on Mattoso Câmaras proposals in his main works, situating them in the context of the development of Linguistics in Brazil; I then present the authors view of the question of word compounding. The last part of the article summari… Show more
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