Konfixace v současné italské slovotvorbě

• Authors: Radimsky Jan

Title variants

EN

LEARNED COMPOUNDING IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Learned compounding, called 'confixation' by Andre Martinet, is a highly productive wordformation process in Italian that combines learned stems (from Greek or Latin) in literary style, which means that the items are arranged in order to have the head on the right, while nonlearned compounding in Romance places the head on the left. We claim that this specific internal structure, rather than the etymology of words or stems, is crucial for the definition of confixation from a synchronic point of view. According to this synchronic distinction between Romance and learned composition, we have described 1390 entries marked as 'compounds' formed after 1980 and recorded in the dictionary Gradit (De Mauro, 1999). We claim that learned compounding is much more productive than Romance compounding even in the domain of everyday language. We have also described three common ways of creating new confixes. In the final section, we discuss mirror pairs such as radiogiornale and giornale radio and propose their description.

Keywords

EN

COMPOUNDS; CONFIXATION; LEARNED COMPOUNDING; LEXICAL MORPHOLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 104-124
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radimsky Jan

• Jan Radimsky, Casopis pro moderni filologii, redakce, Ustav pro jazyk cesky AV CR, v. v. i., Letenska 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA099222