In modified loans, the syntactic order between the stems in the sign and in the spoken compound is reversed. An example of modified loan compound is the sign for the Italian word agriturismo, ‘B&B farmhouse’.
tourism^cultivate
‘B&B farmhouse’ (recreated from Santoro, 2018: 69)
In this LIS compound, the first stem is the core sign tourism and the second one is the core sign cultivate. Notice that in Italian the order of the corresponding words is reversed, as the compound agriturismo can be literally translated as‘cultivate-tourism’.