mistério das combinações

Only recently has Romance d’A Pedra do Reino (2014), by Suassuna, become the subject of more dedicated linguistic studies. Before that, what used to be addressed was its hybridity and multifaceted character. Bearing in mind the importance of heeding more accurate attention to the study of word formation in Suassuna’s work and approaching the relationship between linguistics and literature, this article used the concepts of Productivity condition and Rules of word formation to develop a morphological analysis of the neologisms found in Romance d'A Pedra do Reino. Given the size of the work, this article is limited to a process of formation of new words in Portuguese named suffix derivation. The study showed that Suassuna's lexical inventions were not created from scratch and arbitrarily. Instead, he used what Generative Morphology calls Word Formation Rules and created unexpected combinations.