Number inflection in AN and NA Italian compounds

• Main Author: Micheli, M. Silvia
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2017
• Subjects: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis

This paper aims at analysing a case of morphological variation in Italian, namely number inflection of two types of Italian compounds: Noun-Adjective (e.g. roccaNforteA ‘stronghold’) and Adjective-Noun (e.g. mezzaAlunaN ‘half-moon’) compounds. These compounds display both double inflection (e.g. cas...