The article discusses the selection made by the Italian suffix -bile on psychological verbs. Not all psych-verbs, actually, can have a corresponding adjective of this type.
A. Bisetto (2013). Why can one be irritabile 'irritable' but cannot be *divertibile 'amuse+able'. On -bile adjectives from psychological verbs. QUADERNS DE FILOLOGIA. ESTUDIS LINGÜÍSTICS, XVIII, 25-36.
Why can one be irritabile 'irritable' but cannot be *divertibile 'amuse+able'. On -bile adjectives from psychological verbs
BISETTO, ANTONIETTA
2013
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