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The expression of "collectivity" in Romance languages - An empirical analysis of nominal aspectuality with focus on French (Hardcover)
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The expression of "collectivity" in Romance languages - An empirical analysis of nominal aspectuality with focus on French (Hardcover)
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
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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. The work
thus contributes to the understanding of the verbalisation of
pluralities by linking and complementing previous monodimensional
approaches and, above all, by placing them on a broad empirical
basis.
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