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Nouns, Articles & Gender

Masculine/feminine nouns, definite/indefinite articles, plurals
Morfologia: flessione e derivazione
Morphology: inflection and derivation
inflectional vs derivational
Distinguishing the two morphological types
Derivazione: suffissi nominali
Derivation: nominal suffixes
-zione, -mento, -tore, -ità, -anza
Productive noun-forming suffixes
Derivazione: prefissi
Derivation: prefixes
ri-, s-, in-, dis-, anti-
Prefixes and their meanings
Alterazione: teoria e uso
Alteration: theory and use
-ino, -etto, -one, -accio, -uccio
The semantics and pragmatics of evaluative suffixes
Composizione: tipi
Composition: types
capostazione, portacenere, pomodoro
Compound word patterns in Italian
Conversione e parasintesi
Conversion and parasynthesis
il potere, ammucchiare
Zero-derivation and prefix+suffix derivation
Famiglie di parole
Word families
scrivere → scrittura, scrittore, scritto
Tracing derivational families
Anglicismi e adattamento
Anglicisms and adaptation
il computer, chattare, lo smartphone
English loans and morphological integration
Forestierismi: integrati e crudi
Foreign words: integrated vs raw
i film vs i bar
Adapted vs unadapted loanwords
Neologismi contemporanei
Contemporary neologisms
spammare, googlare, postare
Recent Italian word creation