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Spanish language --- Spanisch. --- Kollektivum. --- Nomen. --- Collective nouns.

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Une étude sur les noms qui renvoient de manière codée à un groupe de personnes tels la foule, le parti, le peuple, le public, le patronat ou encore l'élite. Tous sont définis par la référence à l'humain, le regroupement et la pluralité. Leur analyse linguistique fait également appel à d'autres disciplines des sciences humaines afin de mettre en lumière leur usage dans la société et le langage.

French language --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Collective nouns

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"This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting 'more than one' entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across number, the count/non-count distinction, and lexical/NP levels, reveals a very consistent Scale of Unit Integration, which establishes clear-cut boundaries for collective nouns, and accommodates cases such as three elephant, cattle or a chain of islands. The study also offers a refined understanding of aggregate nouns (a category nearly as large as that of collective nouns) and quantification in pseudo-partitives, develops Guillaume's notion of 'internal plurality', and proposes the innovative concept of 'hyperonyms of plural classes' (e.g. furniture). The Animacy Hierarchy is also found to be influential, beyond hybrid agreement. The book is meant to be accessible to scholars of any theoretical background interested in these topics"--

Lexicology. Semantics --- English language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Collective nouns. --- Collective nouns --- Noun --- E-books --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- French language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Noun --- Grammar --- Collective nouns --- Semantics --- Philosophy --- Psycholinguistics. --- Noun. --- Collective nouns. --- Semantics. --- Philosophy. --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Grammar&delete& --- Psychological aspects --- Linguistique cognitive --- Sémantique --- Philology --- French language - Noun --- French language - Grammar - Collective nouns --- French language - Semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Collective nouns --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Noms collectifs (linguistique) --- Sémantique

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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.

Corpora (Linguistics). --- Romance languages --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French. --- Collective nouns. --- Collectivity. --- Construction Morphology. --- Lexicalization. --- Nominal Aspectuality. --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Aspect (linguistique) --- Nom --- Langues romanes --- Français (langue) --- Noms collectifs --- Nombre (linguistique)