The meaning of Italian VN compounds in a diachronic perspective: the development of a word-formation rule and its semantic instruction

Abstrakt

The paper proposes a diachronic analysis of Italian VN compounds which sheds light on the emergence of this construction and the various meanings usually associated with it.

Klíčová slova

• Italian
• word-formation
• compounding
• verb-noun compounds
• 16th-19th centuries
• semantics.