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The Expression of "Collectivity" in Romance Languages: An Empirical Analysis of Nominal Aspectuality with Focus on French

The Expression of "Collectivity" in Romance Languages: An Empirical Analysis of Nominal Aspectuality with Focus on French

Kleineberg, Désirée

Hardcover

Series: Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, Book 472

FrenchMiscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110784580
ISBN13: 9783110784589
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Aug 22 2022
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.53
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

While previous research on collective nouns in Romance languages mostly adopts a semasiological and theoretical perspective focusing mainly on one single language, the present study takes an onomasiological and comparative approach which is strongly based on empirical evidence.

Against this background and in analogy to the verbal domain, the work elaborates further the functional category of nominal aspectuality which describes the construal of extra-linguistic entities as well as the linguistic means reflecting it. In this sense, collective nouns are systematically compared with other (nominal) means of expression of collectivity in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, focusing especially on object mass nouns, which have hardly been studied so far for Romance languages. On the basis of corpus analyses and acceptability judgement studies, a holistic picture is thus drawn of the semantic-syntactic and derivational properties of various noun types in the synchrony of present-day language as well as of the diachronic lexicalisation paths of these very nouns.

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