Compound verbs and deverbal nouns in French and Italian: which morphological process?

This poster deals with Romance compound deverbal event nouns, and their related compound verbs. These nouns' general shape is YXSfx, where Sfx = V-to-event N forming suffix, X = verb, and Y = neoclassical nominal bound root. The poster describes the way linguistics constraints exert on YXSfx and YX structures. It investigates how YXSfx nouns are linked to the corresponding YX verbs. At first sight, nouns derive from verbs by suffixation. However, we will see that this assumption is wrong. On the contrary, a corpus-based study reveals that YX compounds are back-formed from YXSfx nouns. The lexical data examined have been collected mainly from online documents (about 4000 nouns and 600 verbs in French and Italian).