Restricciones del sistema y restricciones de la norma en la formación de palabras

Resumo

Speakers of a language normally possess knowledge not only about the words of the language but also about the composition and the structure of the words. They also know the sequences that are possible words in their language and those which are not. This is due to the fact that words are allowed by the rules of word formation are not actual words. Thus, not all of the words that should exist actually do and those words which do exist do not always mean what they are supposed to mean, or even these words look like what they are supposed to look like. The rules of word formation define the set of possible sequences and potential words of the language, but in this larger set it is contained the smaller subset of actual words, that is, the set of actually occurring words. The aim of this work is to account for the way in which restrictions of word formation occur. This paper sets out to explain why words that are allowed by the rules of word formation are not possible words in the language and why potential and possible words are not actual words in the language. The examples discussed above have been chosen from the domain that traditionally has been called derivational morphology.