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Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Hong Kong English. With Illustrative Material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong Component) [PDF]

Linguistik Online, 2009
This corpus-based study reports on both a quantitative and qualitative account of the use of collective nouns in Hong Kong English, with particular reference to subject-verb agreement/concord patterns.
Wong, May Lai-Yin
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La quantification nominale

Corela, 2022
This article addresses nominal quantification in English in relation to discrete and continuous quantity, the two semantic categories of discrete and continuous / mass being analysed as interpretations of syntax.
Viviane Arigne
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Collective Nouns

Ecotone, 2021
AbstractCollective nouns such as family, group, and herd combine properties associated with singularity or ‘oneness’ and properties associated with plurality, on all levels of grammar (lexical–conceptual, morphosyntactic, and semantic). Because of this property, they provide a unique window into the various factors that influence the expression and ...
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Proto-Slavic Collectives in *-ьje from a Historical and Comparative Perspective

Slavistična Revija, 2022
The aim of this article is to conduct a diachronic analysis of Proto-Slavic collective nouns ending in *-ьje with a view to gathering comparative evidence for postulating its Indo-European origin.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Grażyna Habrajska, Mikołaj Rychło   +2 more
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Para o estudo da denominação dos conjuntos em português – Aspectos morfo-semânticos dos nomes dos colectivos

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 1999
With this paper I intend to contribute to the study of collective denomination in European Portuguese. However it can not be considered an exhaustive work on this subject.
Margarita Correia
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Foliage est-il à leaves ce que jewellery est à jewels ? Etude de rapports entre dénombrables au pluriel et indénombrables singuliers

Anglophonia, 2018
Existing research on the nouns that denote pluralities of units has isolated a category of nouns that denote heterogeneous aggregates (such as jewellery or furniture).
Laure Gardelle
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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ?

Anglophonia, 2017
A collective noun is typically defined as a noun which, in the singular, involves a plurality of members (e.g. (a) crew). But some of these nouns can also denote members, when they are used as uninflected plurals (e.g.
Laure Gardelle
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Les noms collectifs en -a et en -ad et les diminutifs en -ić.En bosniaque, croate, monténégrin, serbe (bcms) : pluriels supplétifs ou diminutifs au pluriel ?

Revue des études slaves, 2018
The paper deals with collective names in -a and -ad and diminutives in -ić which can be used as suppletive plural forms of some nouns in -e, -eta such as golupče or d(j)ete.
Aleksandar Stefanovic
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Derivational peculiarities of the high style vocabulary in the lyrics of I.A. Brodsky and A.A. Tarkovsky

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023
The article is devoted to the word-formation features of high style vocabulary on the material of I.A. Brodsky’s and A.A. Tarkovsky poetry. The author shows the continuity of the poetic language of Brodsky and Tarkovsky with the heritage of Pushkin, and ...
L. B. Karpenko, T. V. Dmitrieva
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The category of animacy-inanimacy in the Russian language and the linguistic worldview [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The main goal main goal of our study is to give a description of a segment of the linguistic worldview, which reflects the division of objects of objective reality into animate and inanimate, which underpins the grammatical category of animacy-inanimacy ...
Narushevich Andrei, Bak Hadi
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