Linguistic Studies and Essays

Vol. 55 No. 1 (2017)
Articles

Cicli lessicali e polisemia nelle nominalizzazioni. Analisi di un corpus italiano

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  • Raffaele Simone,
  • Gioia Insacco
Raffaele Simone
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione Università Roma Tre
Gioia Insacco
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione Università Roma Tre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4454/ssl.v55i1.185

Published 2017-05-23

Keywords

  • nominalization,
  • deverbal nouns,
  • polysemy,
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Abstract

The paper aims at proposing a theoretically based interpretation of a typical case of polysemy of deverbal nouns. The pivot notion for this purpose is lexical cycle, the claim that the transition from one meaning to another over time is not accidental at all but follows an ordered path. This path, where metonymy has a significant part, is illustrated and exemplified through an Italian corpus. The prediction entailed by the notion lexical cycle is confirmed by a set of nominalizations, whose semantic expansion respects the cycle. As a side argument, the paper also proposes that the semantic expansions taken into account differ for frequency.
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