Análise do prefixo -re na formação de verbos do português brasileiro

Abstract

This work was initially based on the studies of Basílio (1980) and Meirelles and Cançado (2014). The researchers Meirelles and Cançado, in the “Dicionário Gramatical de Verbos do Português Contemporâneo do Brasil” (Borba, 1990), conducted a survey of the different behaviors that the particle re- causes to the verbs to which it adheres. Based on these references, the objective of this work is to understand the cases in which such a particle does not denote the meaning of repetition, as in reagir, reclamar, and receber. To this end, we adopted two fronts of analysis: (i) we analyzed the etymology of these verbs through the work “De re praepositionis usu et notione” (SCHOENWITZ, 1912), which shows which classical Latin authors consolidated some forms of verbs with the form re-, and through etymological dictionaries, Latin, Portuguese, and a series of other sources to identify the history of this particle, from Indo-European to contemporary Portuguese; and (ii) we described the behavior of these verbs in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese according to the Structural Analysis Rules (RAEs) and Word Formation Rules (RFPs) of Basílio (1980). Analyzing the compiled tables, it was possible to divide the verbs into groups, namely: (i) group 1 verbs – the particle re- does not adhere to a primitive verb, presenting only RAE (e.g., receber and rebelar); (ii) group 2 verbs – the particle re- adheres to a primitive verb, conveying different meanings or generating a process of lexicalization (e.g., reagir, recortar, remexer, and reclamar).