Expanding Horizons: A comprehensive insight into the evolution of Italian Attributive-Appositive Noun+Noun Compounds using Google Books Data

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.54563/lexique.1948" target="_blank" >https://dx.doi.org/10.54563/lexique.1948</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54563/lexique.1948" target="_blank" >10.54563/lexique.1948</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Expanding Horizons: A comprehensive insight into the evolution of Italian Attributive-Appositive Noun+Noun Compounds using Google Books Data

Original language description

This study builds upon previous research by Radimský (2023) to offer a comprehensive analysis of Italian NN Attributive-Appositive (ATAP) compounds from 1850s to these days. By using an expanded and more accurately annotated dataset, the study unveils the nuanced dynamics shaping the pattern’s productivity from a diachronic point of view. Through the Theil-Sen regression and the Mann-Kendall test, the study identifies four distinct clusters delineating the exponential growth of ATAP compounds over time. However, a non-uniform distribution of this growth emerges among lower-level constructions, with the expansion of existing N2-based families driving the pattern’s dissemination, especially since 1950s. Remarkably, the study also highlights the subsequent emergence and dissemination of N1-based families that eventually surpass N2-based families starting from the 90s. This complex interplay between N1- and N2-based families indicates the need to analyze both types of families to better understand what mechanisms are at play and what types of generalizations in addition to the formal identity of constituents operate in the formation of new compounds. From a methodological perspective, this paper introduces a novel empirical approach, termed Relative Family Type Frequency (RFTF), for evaluating the extent to which higher-level constructions are covered by corresponding lower-level constructions in compounds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA25-15350S" target="_blank" >GA25-15350S: How do word formation patterns emerge? An empirical diachronic analysis of Italian N+N compounds</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Lexique

ISSN

0756-7138

e-ISSN

2804-7397

Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Numéro spécial

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

53-74

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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