Verb-noun compounds in Italian from the 16th century onwards: an increasing exploitation of an available word-formation pattern

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-015-9274-z" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-015-9274-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-015-9274-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11525-015-9274-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Verb-noun compounds in Italian from the 16th century onwards: an increasing exploitation of an available word-formation pattern

Original language description

Verb-noun compounds are typically considered to be one of the most important innovations in the domain of Romance word-formation (cf. Bauer 2011, among many others). This morphological innovation can also be seen as part of a general tendency in Romance languages to prefer head-initial structures across different levels of the language system (cf., e.g., Ledgeway 2012: 225). However, the question of the productivity of VN compounds arises immediately as there is evidence that the pattern has become extremely productive only recently. This paper investigates the question of the productivity of the VN compounds starting out with a distinction between availability of a word-formation pattern and its profitability (cf., e.g., Bauer 2001). This article shows that the structural presence - availability - of VN compounding seems to be diachronically constant, but that the quantitative exploitation of the pattern - its profitability - turns out to be a recent phenomenon. Following recent research on compounding in Spanish (Moyna 2011) and French (Rosenberg 2007; 2008; 2011), this paper takes one concrete example of the Italian VN compounds and proceeds to show its diachronic evolution from the 16th to the 19th century on the basis of data drawn from diachronic corpora as well as from major historical dictionaries. It demonstrates that the &quot;dramatic increase&quot; alluded to by Bauer (2011: 543) is not to be taken as a sign of a new structural innovation, but rather as a fortuitous exploitation of a well-settled word-formation pattern.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP406%2F12%2F0450" target="_blank" >GAP406/12/0450: Word-formation in Italian from the 16th to the 20th century</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Morphology

ISSN

1871-5621

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

109-131

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84945259911