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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kleineberg, Désirée (Autor)
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
Colección:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 472
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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