Some remarks on clipping of deverbal nouns in French and Italian

Abstract

This chapter deals with the restricted class of clipped deverbal nominals in French (e.g. introduction - intro) and especially in Italian (e.g. giustificazione - giustifica) and aims to show that subtle semantic restrictions seem to constrain such clipping, although there are some differences between the two languages.

Keywords

• Italian
• French
• Word-formation
• Clipping
• Deverbal nouns