Os padrões nominais do hebraico: o padrão reflexivo

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the formation of a kind of nominalization in Modern Hebrew. Our analysis takes into account that Modern Hebrew is a language that has a system of word formation based on triconsonantal roots and vocalic patterns, which are combinations of vowels that give the roots a category (e.g. verb, noun, adjective), besides providing the meaning. Thus, we propose that Modern Hebrew has a reflexive/reciprocal noun formed from a nominal pattern, which can be divided into a verbal tier and a nominalizer suffix -ut, also present in the formation of abstract nouns. As a result of this analysis, we suggest that some nominal vowel patterns, also called mishqalim, are not atomic, that is, do not constitute an indivisible block.