ANALYSIS OF NEOLOGISMS BY LOANWORDS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

This article aims to analyze the process of word formation in Brazilian Portuguese through loanwords. In order to do so, an analysis of linguistic data was conducted by collecting and classifying neological items taken from a newspaper of general circulation in Brazil and a comparison was made with the results obtained by the neological research group TermNeo, which also collected data with neological items of loanwords. The corpus for analysis consisted of 496 items, which were classified according to the source language, thematic area and subtype of loanword neologism to which they belonged following the classification proposed by TermNeo. The results were analyzed and, if possible, compared to the ones of TermNeo. The results showed that the most frequent are the loanwords of English origin, confirming the results of TermNeo, the ones related to technology and the ones of the typology importation, being a reflection of the moment of technological profusion which happens in this decade.