naa a22 4500 51074236X CHVBK 20180411083032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9210-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9210-z Italian V+N compounds, inflectional features and conceptual structure [Elektronische Daten] [Klaus von Heusinger, Christoph Schwarze] Italian V+N compounds, such as portalettere ‘mailman', apriscatole ‘can opener' and spartineve ‘snow plough' are exocentric and denote an Agent or an Instrument. Their morphological structure is intensively discussed and has raised many controversies. In this paper, we focus on the inflectional features Number, Gender and the Thematic Role the compound refers to (Agent or Instrument). We argue that the assignment of these features is conditioned by conceptual structure. Thus the morphological building of these compounds has to interact not only with lexical semantics but also with the independent tier of conceptual structure in a systematic way. We provide an analysis of this interaction in terms of a two level semantics with indices. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Compounding nationallicence Inflectional features nationallicence Two-level semantics nationallicence Lexical semantics nationallicence von Heusinger Klaus Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923, Köln, Germany aut Schwarze Christoph FB Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/3(2013-09-01), 325-350 1871-5621 23:3<325 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9210-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9210-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- von Heusinger Klaus Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923, Köln, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schwarze Christoph FB Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/3(2013-09-01), 325-350 1871-5621 23:3<325 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer