A semântica dos compostos nominais – um estudo de corpus paralelo inglês/português

Abstract

Noun compounds are productive constructions in many languages. However, they are idiosyncratic, fact that makes the study of this linguistic phenomenon a challenge for the linguistics and for the Natural Language researches. The purpose of this paper is to study the semantics of the noun compounds formed by two nouns (NN compounds). It is also intended to identify the translation equivalents in Portuguese found in ten editions of the National Geographic Magazine. The final product is a proposal of typology which expresses the compositionality of the NN compounds according to the data found in the corpus. This paper has three distinctive parts, where the following subjects are introduced: the theoretical bases for this paper; the methodological resources from Corpus Linguistics that were adopted; the analysis and discussion about the data. Concepts about the semantics of nominal compounds as productivity, semantic transparency, headness, lexicalization and nominalization are commented. Two theories were used f