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Article

Derivational Relators in Italian

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Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
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Department of Languages and Literature, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Languages 2022, 7(2), 130; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020130
Submission received: 18 February 2022 / Revised: 21 April 2022 / Accepted: 27 April 2022 / Published: 24 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Morphology Explorations in Romance Languages)

Abstract

The present paper addresses the categorial content of affixes forming a set of denominal adjectives in Italian, arguing that they are substantially the derivational counterpart of oblique case/adpositions. Specifically, we argue that they act as elementary relators, following Manzini and Franco, who characterized oblique cases and prepositions as general relators expressing the relations is-included (⊆)/includes (⊇), or, in other words, their content is what Belvin and den Dikken dubbed “zonal inclusion”.
Keywords: adjective; relator; case; derivation; affix adjective; relator; case; derivation; affix

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Franco, L.; Lorusso, P. Derivational Relators in Italian. Languages 2022, 7, 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020130

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Franco L, Lorusso P. Derivational Relators in Italian. Languages. 2022; 7(2):130. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020130

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Franco, Ludovico, and Paolo Lorusso. 2022. "Derivational Relators in Italian" Languages 7, no. 2: 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020130

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Franco, L., & Lorusso, P. (2022). Derivational Relators in Italian. Languages, 7(2), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020130

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