Affiliation:
1. University of Milano-Bicocca
Abstract
Abstract
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of compounding in Old Italian. The semantic and formal properties of compound
words attested in Old Italian are described and discussed through the theoretical tools provided by Construction Morphology. The analysis
confirms that compounding is exploited since the earliest attestations of the language. It reveals that Old Italian compounds are mostly
right-headed endocentric or exocentric: particularly, endocentric [ADV-Y]Y, [A-N]N|A and exocentric [V-N]N
are the most productive schemas. Moreover, this study highlights a significant influence of Latin on Italian compounding, whereby many Old
Italian compounds are Latin loanwords and calques which served as a model for the creation of new native compounds.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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