The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages An empirical analysis of nominal aspectuality with focus on French
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 backgrou...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
Berlin ; Boston : [2022] |
| Colección: | Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675624006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Theoretical foundations
- 1 Nominal aspectuality and number
- 2 Interim summary: From nominal aspectuality to collection nouns
- 3 Collection nouns: State of the art and definitional delimitation
- II The synchronic characteristics of collection nouns in present-day language
- Introduction
- 4 Semantic-syntactic characteristics: An acceptability judgement study on count collective nouns and object mass nouns
- 5 Morphological characteristics: A corpus analysis of collective nonce-formations
- 6 Conclusion: Linguistic characterisation of Romance collection nouns in present-day language
- III The diachronic development of French collection nouns
- Introduction
- 7 State of the art: The assumed paths of lexicalisation of collection nouns
- 8 Lexicalisation of collection nouns: Corpus analysis in Frantext
- 9 Conclusion and discussion: Linguistic characterisation of collection nouns in language evolution
- IV General conclusion and outlook
- 10 Summary of the results and conclusion
- 11 Outlook
- 12 References
- Subject index
