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Resemblance nominalism and abstract nouns
Analysis, 2015This is a reply to Byeong-Uk Yi who argued that my Resemblance Nominalism fails to account for sentences featuring abstract nouns like (1) Carmine resembles vermillion more than it resembles French Blue and (2) Scarlet is a colour. I accept his criticism of what I said in my book on Resemblance Nominalism about (1), but then I go on to show how (1) can
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Abstract nouns and resemblance nominalism
Analysis, 2014In developing resemblance nominalism, Rodriguez-Pereyra attempts to meet the challenge that truths involving abstract nouns pose to the doctrine. He holds that one can render sentences containing abstract nouns without invoking attributes and defends this view by giving nominalistic sentences that express the truthmakers of two such sentences: Scarlet
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A vagueness based analysis of abstract nouns
2020The count/mass distinction is a widely discussed topic across languages and linguistic theories have covered a great part of peculiarities which appear in relation to this phe- nomenon. Abstract nouns have often been left out of consideration, possibly due to the fact that their reference is abstract and the application of some relevant features of ...
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Poet versus Abstract Noun: An Agon
New Literary History, 1998statements are combined with illustrative particularities, and second, that it contains "patterning factors that do not pertain to or impinge upon the logic and syntax of the particular authoritative statement it makes" (389). We can summarize this by saying that the This content downloaded from 157.55.39.219 on Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:05:08 UTC All use ...
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CONCRETIZATION OF ABSTRACT AND MATERIAL NOUNS
Bulletin of Osh State University, 2021Zhanyl Abdazovna Kaldybaeva +1 more
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On the Study of Abstract Nouns in Turkic Languages
American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity ResearchThe article examines the views of scholars on the study of abstract nouns in Turkic languages. It discusses the formation of nouns, the affixes used to form abstract nouns, the classification of nouns according to their meanings, and the study of abstract nouns in general.
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