Autori
Nissim, Malvina
Zaninello, Andrea

Titolo
A quantitative study on the morphology of Italian multiword expressions
Periodico
Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2011 - Volume: 0 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 283 - Pagina finale: 300

Internal morphological rigidity of multiword expressions (MWEs) is a highly debated topic in linguistic studies, although observations are usually qualitative, and rarely supported by actual data specifically extracted with this aim and on this issue. We report on corpus-based experiments on Italian nominal MWEs, with the purpose of determining degrees of internal fi xedness numerically. We observe that MWEs lie on a variability continuum (both across and within morphosyntactic configurations) and we suggest measures to quantify this scale. However, lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic factors do not contribute equally to the definition of MWE-hood and nominal expressions rather seem to be biased towards the former. We conclude that, also in the perspective of extraction tasks, semantic generalisations must necessarily come into play.



SICI: 1720-9331(2011)0:2<283:AQSOTM>2.0.ZU;2-#
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