Slavic derived collective nouns as spatial and social clusters
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| Rok publikování | 2021 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | In this paper, I examine a puzzling property of collective nouns that they simultaneously evoke a sense of plurality and of singularity. Based on broad cross-Slavic evidence concerning two types of derived collective nouns, I argue that this property can be explained in terms of the mereotopological notion of cluster, which represents a structured plurality that can be perceived as a higher-order unit. |
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