Alina Villalva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alina Villalva is involved.
Articles
2026 Brazilian indigenous loanwords in Bluteau’s Vocabulario portugues e latino Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts (eds.), pp. 57–71 | Chapter
Bluteau’s Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino is a landmark in Portuguese lexicography, particularly for its systematic documentation of lexical variation. This study explores how Bluteau captured the linguistic exchanges between Portuguese and Amerindian languages. Despite some limitations, his… read more
2024 Word processing through lexical decision in Brazilian Portuguese: Blends, derived, and simplex words Words in the World, Teddiman, Laura, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary (eds.), pp. 145–160 | Article
This study investigates word processing in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on blends, which juxtapose or overlap (W)ords and/or (C)lips (e.g. portunhol = (portu)guês ‘Portuguese’ + espa(nhol) ‘Spanish’). Blends present intriguing theoretical and empirical challenges to models of morphological… read more
2022 Chapter 10. Complex verbs: The interplay of suffixation, conversion, and parasynthesis in Portuguese and English Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications, Ruz, Alba E., Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.), pp. 249–282 | Chapter
Denominal and deadjectival complex verbs form a heterogenous set. They all belong to the coarse-grained class of causative verbs, but they may be obtained by different morphological processes, namely suffixation (code
n
→ codify
v
; laic
adj
→… read more