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Italian V+N compounds, inflectional features and conceptual structure
2013
Morphology
Italian V+N compounds, such as portalettere 'mailman', apriscatole 'can opener' and spartineve 'snow plough' are exocentric and denote an Agent or an Instrument. Their morphological structure is intensively discussed and has raised many controversies. In this paper, we focus on the inflectional features Number, Gender and the Thematic Role the compound refers to (Agent or Instrument). We argue that the assignment of these features is conditioned by conceptual structure. Thus the morphological
doi:10.1007/s11525-013-9210-z
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