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Date: 09-Aug-2010
From: Christine Konecny < Christine.Konecny at uibk.ac.at >
Subject: Kollokationen: Versuch einer semantisch-begrifflichen Annäherung und Klassifizierung anhand italienischer Beispiele/Collocations: A semantic-conceptual attempt at a definition and classification, illustrated with examples from Italian
 

	
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:21:57
From: Christine Konecny [Christine.Konecny at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Kollokationen: Versuch einer semantisch-begrifflichen Annäherung und Klassifizierung anhand italienischer Beispiele/Collocations: A semantic-conceptual attempt at a definition and classification, illustrated with examples from Italian

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Institution: Universität Innsbruck 
Program: Department for Romance Languages 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2007 

Author: Christine Konecny

Dissertation Title: Kollokationen: Versuch einer semantisch-begrifflichen
Annäherung und Klassifizierung anhand italienischer
Beispiele/Collocations: A semantic-conceptual attempt at a
definition and classification, illustrated with examples
from Italian 

Dissertation URL: 
http://www.m-verlag.net/programm/shop/fachgebiete/3-sprache-und-translation/forum-sprachwissenschaften/konecny-christine-kollokationen-brversuch-einer-semantisch-begrifflichen-annherung-und-klassifizierung-anhand-italienischer-beispiele/

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)


Dissertation Director(s):
Heidi Siller-Runggaldier
Maria Iliescu

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis studies collocations in Italian, i.e. certain kinds of fixed word
combinations which can be situated between free combinations such as mangiare
una mela ('eat an apple') and idiomatic expressions such as 'portare nottole ad
Atene' (bring owls to Athens, i.e. carry coals to Newcastle). While native
speakers see collocations as entirely 'normal' and can intuitively form them
correctly, learners of a foreign language might find them very difficult. A
learner of Italian, for instance, should know that in Italian, a nail is not
hammered in but 'planted' (piantare un chiodo), that, if you miss a train, you
have to use the verb 'lose' (perdere il treno), that a rickety chair 'limps' (la
sedia zoppica), a loose tooth 'dances' (il dente balla), that a person related
by marriage has been 'acquired' (un parente acquisito) or that a blank tape or
CD is called 'virgin' (una cassetta / un CD vergine). The researcher studies the
reasons for the strong linking power between the elements of collocations. She
shows that the meaning of the words themselves as well as certain processes of
semantic transfer (e.g. metaphorical and metonymic transfers) play an important
role and that collocations should not be considered static but dynamic
constructs which are subject to a constant process of modification.





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