Resumen de Exploring divergent views on word structure: challenging the concept of the morpheme
- English
How the meaning of a word is expressed through its form is one of the central questions in linguistics and one which has been responsible for conflicting views of word structure. In this paper we discuss some of the ways in which this question has been approached by providing an overview and understanding of two competing perspectives in morphological thinking within the context of Generative Grammar. These perspectives, known as the morpheme-based model and the word-based model, will be discussed to show how they deal with the form-meaning correspondence. With this paper, I offer a critical analysis of the approaches, highlighting their implications for our understanding of word structure
- português
A relação entre a forma e o significado de uma palavra constitui uma das questões centrais da linguística e está na origem de conflitos teóricos que têm condicionado o debate sobre a estrutura da palavra. Neste ar-tigo, iremos discutir dois modelos teóricos distintos: o modelo baseado no morfema (morpheme-based) e o modelo baseado na palavra (word-based). O objetivo consiste em demonstrar, no contexto da Gramática Gerativa, o modo distinto como os dois modelos analisam a correspondência entre forma e significado. Será feita uma análise crítica das duas abordagens, destacando as suas implicações para o estudo da estru-tura interna da palavra.
