The Italian verb-noun anthroponymic compounds at the Syntax / morphology interface

Franck Floricic (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

Verb Noun compounds have been studied at least since the Gold Age of Romance Linguistics (see Darmesteter (1894), but their relationship with Proper Names hasn't been much investigated. The aim of this contribution is to offer an account of Italian anthroponymic Verb Noun compounds. It will be shown that as far as Italian is concerned, the hypothesis which best describes their morphological properties is the 'imperative hypothesis'. The view that will be held in this paper is that the model provided by anthroponymic verb - noun compounds still is traceable in the morphological make-up of actual (non anthroponymic) Italian compounds, even though a process of reanalysis has led to the reinterpretation of the verbal element of V-N compounds as a bare stem

Mots clés: proper nouns; imperatives; compounds; reanalysis; bare stem; Italian

Domaines: Linguistique

Franck Floricic. The Italian verb-noun anthroponymic compounds at the Syntax / morphology interface. Morphology, 2008, 18 (2), pp.167-193. ⟨hal-00669372⟩