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This paper focuses on the delimitation of adjectives as a lexical category by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. It reconciles a psycholinguistic approach to language acquisition with a minimalist conception of language (Chomsky, 1995-2001). The results of the experiments reported here are compatible with the working hypothesis, namely, that children make use of syntactic and morphological information in the delimitation of adjectives as a lexical category. They also reveal that the semantic properties of derivation affixes forming adjectives are already available by the age of two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, We describe the efficacy of lexical blends, like 'Luísque' ('Lula' + 'uísque') and 'Jeguerino' ('Jegue' + 'Severino'), in Agamenon Mendes Pedreira's articles, published by O Globo once in a week. We show that lexical blends are constructions that cause an expressive impact in textual and discursive levels. We too argue that blends are a resource for the expression of humor in these articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the workshop on Computational and Computer-Assisted Terminology on May 25, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal. The major themes discussed in the workshop were term extraction, semantic relation extraction, and terminology and knowledge organization and management. It also reflected the increasing development of terminological tools in a variety of languages.