Concatenação de afixos em Bantu: algumas leituras a partir da Fonologia Lexical.

Bantu languages from Mozambique exhibit a grammatical behavior distinct from Portuguese, from which they coexist. Noun morphology is one of the domains that offer notable differences in functioning between these languages. The object of this work is the affixes in Bantu, i.e., noun prefixes, suffixes and locative circumfixes of Ciyaawo (P21), Xichangana (S53) and Emakhuwa (P31) languages, (Ciyaawo and Emakhuwa) spoken in the North and (Xichangana) in the South of the country. Based on the theoretical support of standard Lexical Phonology (Kiparsky 1982 and Mohanan 1982) and the Booij & Rubach (1987) model, we seek to understand the behavior of morphemes that are linked to nominal themes and, with that, determine the occurrence of morphophonological processes and constraints arising from the interweaving between morphology and phonology. The data analyzed were obtained from a personal database built through instruments for collecting basic vocabulary from the Núcleo de Estudos de Línguas Moçambicanas (NELIMO), applied to higher education students, between 2013 and 2017 on one hand, and from two secondary sources (Langa 2012 and Ngunga 2014), on the other hand. The research results seem to confirm the existence of two components of the lexicon, namely, a. the cyclic -- where morphological rules act, and b. the post-cyclic -- where phonological rules operate, as proposed by Booij & Rubach (1987). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]