Morphosyntax im deutsch-italienischen Vergleich : Eine kontrastive Fallstudie zu Wortbildungsprodukten in der internetbasierten Kommunikation der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia

This article analyses morphosyntactic phenomena in a comparison of German and Italian, based on the Wikipedia corpora of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language. Specifically, the case study focuses on confixes which were originally of Latin or Greek origin and were initially borrowed primarily in the field of medical terminology. With the passage of time, however, these have also come to be used, with changes to their semantics, in word formations in general usage. Thus -phob- (G) and -fob- (IT) as well as -man- (G) and -man- (IT) can be found in general usage in word formations which show formal and functional equivalences in German and Italian. Wikipedia authors use terms meant as disease metaphors such as Lösch(o)manie or cancellomania on the discussion pages of the online encyclopaedia in order to provide metadiscursive standardisation of the behaviour of other authors in the collaborative text production in Wikipedia.