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Abstract Nouns in the Romance Languages

2022
Abstract words such as Fr. livraison ‘delivery’, It. fedeltà ‘faithfulness’, Sp. semejanza ‘resemblance’, belong to the word class of nouns. They do not possess materiality and therefore lack sensory perceivability. Within the spectrum of nouns, abstract nouns are located on the opposite side of proper names; between them, there are common nouns ...
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Resemblance nominalism and abstract nouns

Analysis, 2015
This 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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The lexical processing of abstract and concrete nouns

Brain Research, 2009
Recent activation studies have suggested different neural correlates for processing concrete and abstract words. However, the precise localization is far from being defined. One reason for the heterogeneity of these results could lie in the extreme variability of experimental paradigms, ranging from explicit semantic judgments to lexical decision tasks
Papagno, Costanza, A. Fogliata, E. Catricalà, Miniussi, Carlo   +3 more
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Abstract nouns meaning "situation state" in Uzbek

Uzbekistan: language and culture, 2022
The lexical layer of a language is determined by the way of life, culture, level of thinking, worldview of people who speak this language. While concrete words embody the ethnoculture and life of the people, and abstract words name the worldview, the way of thinking of a cer-tain people, ethical, aesthetic, cultural,
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Poet versus Abstract Noun: An Agon

New Literary History, 1998
statements 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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Abstract nouns: Imagery versus lexical complexity

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Four types of nouns were used as stimuli in a paired-associate learning experiment: low-imagery nouns that correspond to simple lexical entries (e.g., soul) and low-imagery nouns that may be derived from more basic lexical entries (e.g., explanation); high-imagery nouns that correspond to simple lexical entries (e.g., comrade), and high-imagery nouns ...
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English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells

2000
Based on a systematic analysis of a very large corpus, this book introduces a conceptual and terminological framework for the linguistic description of abstract nouns. The uses and meanings of 670 abstract English nouns are described and their semantic, pragmatic, rhetorical, textual and cognitive functions are discussed, always with reference to ...
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Derived nouns: quality, collective, and other abstracts

2013
Abstract This chapter deals with affixes whose primary purpose is to derive nouns other than event/state/result nouns or personal/participant nouns. Among these are affixes that create abstract and collective nouns of various sorts, including -ness, -ity, -dom, -ship, -hood, -ery, -ia, -y, -ana,and -age.
Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag
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A vagueness based analysis of abstract nouns

2020
The 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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КОГНИТИВНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ ТИПОЛОГИЗАЦИИ ЗНАЧЕНИЙ АБСТРАКТНЫХ ИМЕН СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫХ

The inherent complexity of abstract nouns as objects of linguistic inquiry poses a significant challenge for their classification — not only within the framework of traditional semantics, but also from the perspective of cognitive semantics, particularly in relation to the conceptual structures they verbalize.
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