Italian phrasal verbs in Italian-Spanish bilingual dictionaries: microstructure, macrostructure and equivalents

In the present study the treatment of the Italian phrasal verbs (PhVs) that are included in the latest editions of the 3 main Italian-Spanish bilingual dictionaries will be analyzed. Our objectives are: a) to provide an inventory of such constructions, as well as to confirm their productivity; b) to analyze any possible problem that might be related to the macros- tructure and the microstructure of the dictionaries, which in turn may make it difficult for those constructions to be found; c) given that PhVs show a low productivity in Spanish, the Spanish equivalents will be examined, in order to figure out which morphosyntactic structures are the most frequently used in Spanish to translate Italian PhVs.