8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance
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Davide Ricca
Abstract
Verb-noun compounds are a very characteristic device in Romance word-formation. The present article tries to deal briefly 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.
Abstract
Verb-noun compounds are a very characteristic device in Romance word-formation. The present article tries to deal briefly 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.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
