Autore: Thornton, Anna M.
Titolo: It. viceregina
Periodico: Lingua e stile
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 351 - Pagina finale: 364

Italian speakers are divided over how to refer to men and women who are deputies to an office-holder of the opposite sex. For example, if a female mayor is la sindaca (the. f mayor. f ), is her male deputy il vicesindaca (the. m vice-mayor. f ) or il vicesindaco (the. m vice-mayor. m )? While scholars maintain that the first option is possible, speakers seem to opt for the second, adopting a usage in which the gender of nouns preceded by vice- (vice-, deputy) agrees with the sex of their ref-erent, and not with the sex of the person whom the deputy represents. This paper addresses the case of viceregina (vice-queen), which could mean both ‘woman acting as viceroy’ and ‘viceroy’s wife’. It is shown that the first meaning, although listed by dictionaries, is not attested before the 21 st century – all previous usages of viceregina refer to wives of viceroys. Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) preferred viceré (viceroy) as a hybrid noun when referring to a woman holding the position.


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SICI: 0024-385X(2020)2<351:IV>2.0.ZU;2-1
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1417/98881
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1417/98881

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