Word-formation and lexical aspect: deverbal verbs in Italian

Evaluative morphology has been widely described in the literature of the field. However, scholars have always neglected evaluative constructions with a verb as the base. Actually, evaluative verbs are cross-linguistically less widespread than evaluative nouns and adjectives. Moreover, even in languages in which they display a satisfactory degree of productivity (as in Italian), their occurrences are far from being homogeneous: their formation is constrained by a set of restrictions that depend on the actional characterization of the base, while their distribution is highly constrained by the context of occurrence, that is by the tense of the verb