Why can one be irritabile ‘irritable’ but can not be *divertibile ‘amuse+able’? On Italian -bile adjectives from psychological verbs

The paper proposes to set out the domain of application of the adjective forming Italian suffix -bile on the basis of the Aktionsart properties of verbs. In particular, -bile adjectives based on object-experiencer psychological verbs are discussed. It is suggested that, beyond actionality, another p...

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Main Author: Antonietta Bisetto
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de València 2014-02-01
Series:Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics
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Online Access:https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/3277
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