Results 1 to 10 of about 9,767 (257)
On abstract nouns and countability
, 2020 Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der Zählbarkeit abstrakter Substantive, die in der Literatur zur Semantik von Substantiven kaum berücksichtigt wurden. Die Erforschung einer Teilmenge von Abstrakta anhand der Annotation von lexikalischen Merkmalen und einer gezielten Korpusstudie ermöglicht einen Einblick in das Sortenpotential dieser ...
Husić, Halima (M. A.)
openaire +3 more sources
Countability shifts and abstract nouns [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract The paper examines the mass-count distinction in abstract nouns, starting from the corpus-derived observation that most of the nouns that can be used in count or mass syntactic contexts (“elastic nouns”) are (arguably) abstract.
openaire +1 more source
Conceptual Abstractness: from Nouns to Verbs [PDF]
, 2018 Investigating lexical access, representation and processing involves dealing with conceptual abstractness: abstract concepts are known to be more quickly and easily delivered in human communications than abstract meanings (Binder et al., 2005). Although these aspects have long been left unexplored, they are relevant: abstract terms are widespread in ...
Davide Colla +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Clustering, hierarchical organization, and the topography of abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning. In contrast, many theorists argue that abstract words are "disembodied" in that their meaning is mediated through ...
Troche, J, Crutch, S, Reilly, J
openaire +4 more sources
THE PROBLEM OF DISTINGUISHING ABSTRACT NOUNS
Modern Technologies and Scientific and Technological Progress, 2022 The article discusses various classifications of nouns. The traditional division of nouns does not always represent a coherent scheme that would cover the entire class of substantive units. However, it is indisputable that in the vast majority of works that consider the classification of nouns, the authors distinguish a subgroup of abstract ...
openaire +1 more source
Atomic Structures in the Denotation Of Abstract Nouns
Društvene i humanističke studije (Online), 2021 Countability is a universal lexical category that provides a binary division of nouns into countable and uncountable nouns or is also called count and mass nouns. Usually, count nouns refer to things or objects which can be individuated and thus counted, while mass nouns refer to substances or stuff such as water,wine, blood, or mud for which it is ...
openaire +3 more sources
Scientific Papers Collection of the Angarsk State Technical UniversityThe article discusses the classification of nouns and the allocation of abstract nouns according to various ...
openaire +1 more source
HIGHLIGHTING ABSTRACT NOUNS AS A SUBCLASS OF NOUNS
Modern Technologies and Scientific and Technological ProgressThe article discusses the classification of nouns and the allocation of abstract nouns according to various ...
openaire +1 more source
Number Categories in Abstract Nouns
Studies about Languages, 2008 Abstract nouns are uncountable from the point of view of number. In Lithuanian nouns referring to actions are derived from verbs by means of suffixes and endings in the same way as nouns referring to qualities are derived from adjectives. All nouns referring to actions and qualities are, in principle, uncountable and singular, except a few nouns which ...
openaire +1 more source
SEMANTIC PECULARITIES OF THE NOUNS WITH ABSTRACT MEANING
Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 2022 The aim of this work is to interpret words with abstract meaning with the help of Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus. Foreign linguists have made a significant contribution to ideographic lexicography. The essence of ideography is to determine the range of ideas (concepts, archetypes) and verbal means of their reproduction ...
openaire +2 more sources