Collocazioni in L2 e interferenze linguistiche. Il caso di studenti universitari italofoni DaF

Authors

  • Marco Rivadossi Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Innsbruck Author
  • Sabrina Ballestracci University of Florence image/svg+xml Author

Keywords:

Collocations, Interference Italian L1-German L2, Translation Strategies, German as Foreign Language

Abstract

This essay describes a pilot study conducted at the University of Florence on Italian-speaking students of German as a foreign language (DaF – Deutsch als Fremdsprache). The study examines the linguistic phenomenon of collocations, semi-fixed and conventional lexical combinations that generally differ from language to language, and aims to identify the main difficulties encountered by participants in identifying German collocations from given Italian collocations with a nominal base and a verbal or adjectival collocator, selected according to Hausmann’s model. The following variables are identified as factors that seem to influence the collocational competence in the sample examined: (I.) the level of linguistic and metalinguistic competence; (II.) the degree of congruence between the German and Italian collocations; (III.) the morphosyntactic type of collocation. While some difficulties can be explained in terms of the frequency of collocations in language use and semantic-lexical competence in the L2, many others seem to be the result of L1 interference due to different translation strategies.

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Author Biographies

  • Marco Rivadossi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Innsbruck

    Marco Rivadossi is a PhD candidate in German Studies at the University of Florence under a joint supervision with the University of Innsbruck. He is working on a project to create a bilingual Italian-German dictionary model of collocations typical of the scientific language for Italian-speaking university students of German as a second language. His main research interests focus on phraseology, lexicography and grammar from a contrastive Italian-German perspective, and the diatopic varieties of German.

  • Sabrina Ballestracci, University of Florence

    Sabrina Ballestracci is Associate Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Florence. Main research interests: Acquisition and Didactics of German L2, Contrastive Grammar, Connectives, Text Linguistics, Linguistic Stylistics. Current research interests: Acquisition of Syntax, Interlingual Transfer in German as a Second/Third Language, Adversative and Concessive Connectives, Text Complexity, Translation of Specialised Terminology of Art.

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2025-12-15

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Collocazioni in L2 e interferenze linguistiche. Il caso di studenti universitari italofoni DaF . (2025). PHRASIS | Rivista Di Studi Fraseologici E Paremiologici, 9(9). https://rivista.phrasis.it/index.php/rp/article/view/156