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Collective nouns, aggregate nouns, and superordinates
Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2010‘Part of’ and ‘kind of’ relations in the lexicon have been matter of some linguistic research, but strangely enough, they have only rarely been investigated together. Strangely, since ‘part of’ and ‘kind of’ appear to be similar in a number of respects, and since nouns such as furniture or bétail combine both ‘part of’ and ‘kind of’ readings.
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1982
Excerpt To the editor: I was interested to read Olans' contribution on medical collective nouns (1).
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Excerpt To the editor: I was interested to read Olans' contribution on medical collective nouns (1).
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Collectives, object mass nouns and individual count nouns
Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2016Mass superordinates such asclothing, clothesandfurnitureform a distinct and peculiar class of nouns in languages with an obligatory singular/plural distinction. These nouns often havepluralia-tantumvariants as well as count equivalents – both within one linguistic system as well as cross-linguistically.
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The trouble with collective nouns for genome editing
Mammalian Genome, 2017We should start as we mean to go on and try to avoid the confusion most of us experience when bombarded with acronyms with overstated significations. You will be familiar with the situation, you are in a seminar or a meeting and someone who has been using a set of acronyms for years, includes them in sentence after sentence that has you lost because ...
Wells, Sara, Joly, Jean-Stéphane
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The Duality of Collective Nouns
ELT Journal, 1970Abstract : Instead of dismissing the existence of collective nouns in English on syntactic grounds, the article proposes that collective nouns comprise a contextual or discourse category of nouns exhibiting duality of number. This duality stems from a choice, open to the writer or speaker, of using a collective noun as either a singular or plural noun--
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Syntactic cues in the acquisition of collective nouns
Cognition, 1995One basic finding in the study of word learning is that children tend to construe a word describing an object as referring to the kind of whole object, rather than to a part of the object, one of its properties, or the substance it is made of. This has been taken as evidence that there exist certain special constraints on word meaning that guide ...
P, Bloom, D, Kelemen
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Collective nouns and language change
English Language and Linguistics, 2006This study concerns the changing and variable agreement patterns with twenty-one low-frequency collective nouns (e.g. trio) in British English. The data come from the 1990 and 2000 CD-ROM editions of The Independent. The token frequencies of nouns do not appear to affect the preference for singular verb agreement.
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Modelling Noun-Phrase Dynamics in Specialized Text Collections
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2010Abstract The science of biology has entered a new era with new approaches for information processing frameworks and high-throughput experiments. This has led to a high rate of publication production and the emergence of large accessible databases in English, permitting the creation of text collections in any specialized domain.
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Derived nouns: quality, collective, and other abstracts
2013Abstract 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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