Derivational morphology and compounding

The chapter describes Italian compounding and derivational morphology (prefixation, parasynthesis, suffixation, conversion); it also briefly illustrates phrasal lexemes and minor lexeme-formation processes (backformation, reduplication, blending, clipping, and acronymy). The description of the main devices is organized by output category (e.g., nominal suffixation, adjectival suffixation, verbal suffixation); within each output category, subsections are organized by input category (e.g., within nominal suffixation denominal nouns, deverbal nouns and deadjectival nouns are discussed separately); within each of these input categories, the description is organized by derivational categories (e.g., deverbal nouns include action, agent, instrument, place, and patient nouns, and nouns of beneficiary).