Considerazioni su attività ludica e linguaggio: giochi con le parole e parole per i giochi (ludonimi)

The human faculty of language presents two levels of interplaying with ludic activity. First of all language structures work thanks to paradigmatic relationships which, by themselves, can represent a primary source for an universal ludic activity as language play. Moreover human language serves to speak about ludic activity and to name games and plays. So the interlinguistic study of the ludonymy, that is of the morpho-semantic strategies used to create the lexicon of basic play activities and to name single plays and games, can reveal, in a broader linguistic and cognitive perspective, the most frequent ways of categorization of universal and specific ludic activities.