Verb-noun compounds are a very characteristic device in Romance word-formation. The present article deals with most of the facets which have made verb-noun compounds the object of intense debate from the 19th century onward. Emphasis is placed on: (i) the semantic and categorial polyfunctionality of the output; (ii) its borderline position on the syntax-morphology interface, although it is argued that verb-noun compounds are definitely the output of a morphological procedure; (iii) some interlinguistic discrepancies in the build-up of forms, including the long-term issue of the formal status of the verb-component.
Verb-noun compounds in Romance
RICCA, Davide
2015-01-01
Abstract
Verb-noun compounds are a very characteristic device in Romance word-formation. The present article deals with most of the facets which have made verb-noun compounds the object of intense debate from the 19th century onward. Emphasis is placed on: (i) the semantic and categorial polyfunctionality of the output; (ii) its borderline position on the syntax-morphology interface, although it is argued that verb-noun compounds are definitely the output of a morphological procedure; (iii) some interlinguistic discrepancies in the build-up of forms, including the long-term issue of the formal status of the verb-component.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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