ARCHAISMS AND NEOLOGISMS WITH THE SUFFIX – VEL IN ADJECTIVES OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine some theories about archaisms and neologisms, focusing on the examples of adjectives suffixed with -vel in the Portuguese language. To give examples of adjectives in -vel considered as archaisms, fragments of morphologically annotated texts from the Historical Corpus of the Portuguese Tycho Brahe were chosen, and to demonstrate the dynamism of the suffix -vel, texts from online newspaper articles were used. The results obtained through the analyses demonstrate that the suffix -vel, in the Portuguese language, is productive and has always been present in the formation of words, hence why adjectives formed with the suffix -vel are found both in ancient and contemporary texts.