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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F16%3A10331542" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/16:10331542 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GAP406%2F12%2F0450" target="_blank" >GAP406/12/0450: Slovotvorba v italštině od 16. do 20. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Morphology

ISSN

1871-5621

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

26

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

109-131

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84945259911