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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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CONCRETIZATION OF ABSTRACT AND MATERIAL NOUNS

Bulletin of Osh State University, 2021
Zhanyl Abdazovna Kaldybaeva, Elmira Kochkorovna Muratova   +1 more
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The use of articles with abstract nouns

2020
XIV Машеровские чтения : материалы междунар. науч.-практ. конф. студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых, Витебск, 21 октября 2020 г. - Витебск : ВГУ имени П. М. Машерова, 2020. - С. 203-204. - Библиогр.: с. 204 (3 назв.).
Akyyeva, Bahar, Muhommetgurbanova, Maya
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Abstract nouns in picture descriptions

2022
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Adjectives Modulate Sensorimotor Activation Driven by Nouns

Cognitive Science, 2021
Gioacchino Garofalo, Barbara Fm Marino
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‘The goal of this analysis …’: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing

Lingua, 2021
Feng Jiang, Ken Hyland
exaly  

The meaning of “abstract nouns”

2013
Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka
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