In my work, i give a brief presentation of the book Formação de Palavras no Português Brasileiro Contemporâneo (Word Formation in Contemporary Brazilian Portuguese) by Antônio José Sandmann, then I present a method for detecting differences in word derivation between the Portuguese of Portugal and that of Brazil on the one hand, and I give a report of the first results of mysurvey, on the other.
word formation; derivation; the Portuguese of Brazil