Derivation and compounding in a diachronic perspective: agent nouns in the evolution of Italian

Abstract

The study aims at describing the relation between derivation and compounding. The concrete example of the evolution of agent nouns in Italian is used in order to show some diachronic changes of word-formation processes.

Keywords

• Derivation
• compounding
• diachronic
• perspective
• agent
• nouns
• evolution
• Italian