Composizione-univerbazione? Le oscillazioni di grafia nei produttivi composti italiani a schema (N) VN sul materiale linguistico tratto da La Gazzetta dello Sport negli anni 2016-2020

• Authors: Anna Godzich

Title variants

EN

Is a compound word one word, separate words or hyphenated words? Different ortography in (N) VN productive Italian compounds on the examples from the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport in 2016-2020

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

EN

Word-formation and compounding in Italian present many interesting challenges (classification of compounds, its interpretation and types of semantic relationship that may hold between the compound’s elements). This article attempts to examine a different one - the orthography of one productive compounding pattern in present-day Italian, that is Verb + Noun compounds. Various accounts of Verb + Noun ortography are reviewed, with special focus on the status of hyphenated words. In light of this data, the author focuces also on the problem of inclusion of compounds as multi-word units by dictionaries. The aim of this research is to contrast theoretical prescriptions with some data samples of Italian (Noun) Verb + Noun compounds drawn from La Gazzetta dello Sport (2016-2020). With this analysis the author wants to examine more in detail whether the use reflects what Italian grammarians claim about the Verb + Noun compounds ortography rules, because in various researches conducted in this field that aspect has often been neglected.

Keywords

EN

Italian word-formation; compounding; ortography of compounds; Verb Noun compounds; Italian football language; Italian football press; inclusion by dictionaries; specialized nominal compounds; multi-word units; lexical creativity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Neophilologica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 314-334

Dates

published

2020-12-23

Contributors

author

Anna Godzich

• Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/NEO.2020.32.17