A polissemia do prefixo “des-” em substantivos de ação com base em “-ção” e “-mento”

This paper investigates the meanings of prefix "des" in action nouns Brazilian Portuguese through an approach to language use and focuses on importance context for recognition meaning being activated by affix. Initially, main contributions Normative Grammatical Tradition Theory Generative Linguistics analysis referred are presented. The corpus used this research was constituted from electronic mega-corpus NILC University São Paulo developed Carlos campus. results data reveal that affix “des-” is highly influenced context, therefore it possible same word have different meanings, depending whether situations use.