This article presents an overview of compounding in contemporary Portuguese. Conceived as a plurilexematic unit used as a holistic denomination, a compound is characterized by lexical atomicity. The continuum of compound classes that we propose is based on the morpho-lexical nature of the internal units (root, word) and on the (non)conformity of compound constructions with Portuguese syntactic templates. Since Portuguese compounds constitute a heterogeneous and borderline class, this analysis also focuses on the boundaries of compoundhood, namely those existing between compounds and noun phrases. This article also concentrates on the internal grammatical (coordinative, subordinative, attributive) and thematic relations and analyses Portuguese compounds with respect to headedness in its morphological, semantic and categorial dimensions. Finally, we stress the existence of a narrow relationship between internal constituency, headedness and inflectional patterns of Portuguese compounds.

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This work presents the results of the analysis conducted to 844 job advertisements for secretarial/office management vacancies published in Portugal in the newspaper Jornal Expresso (paper format) between 1978 and 2018. It aims to identify these professionals' profile, from an employer's perspective, over the course of the last four decades. Presently, secretarial/office management professionals have responsibilities and attributes that differ significantly from those of the past. With this premise in mind, this work aims, on the one hand, at identifying the evolution of the age, gender, training and experience requirements published in the analysed job ads; on the other hand, it seeks to track the spectrum of skills - both technical and transversal - considered as most relevant by employers. The results confirm that fundamental changes have occurred, namely with regards to the sought professional categories, the professionals' gender, and the range of tools and techniques necessary to accomplish the required tasks, especially after the introduction and progressive demand of computer skills. Moreover, the set of the most valued transversal skills has undergone significant changes as well.

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