Decomposing derived collectives in West Slavic: Experimental evidence from Czech and Polish

DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Marcin WĄGIEL. Decomposing derived collectives in West Slavic: Experimental evidence from Czech and Polish. In 12.5th Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference (FDSL 12.5), 7.-9. 12. 2017, Nova Gorica, Slovinsko. 2017.

Basic information

• Original name: Decomposing derived collectives in West Slavic: Experimental evidence from Czech and Polish
• Authors: DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Marcin WĄGIEL (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 12.5th Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference (FDSL 12.5), 7.-9. 12. 2017, Nova Gorica, Slovinsko, 2017.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Slovenia
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: webové stránky konference
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/17:00095310
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: collective nouns; group nouns; collectivity; distributivity
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

In this paper, we present experimental evidence concerning 3 classes of derived collectives in Czech and Polish. The results of the experiment suggest the existence of a scale of decomposability involving distinct types of collective nouns, bare plurals, and distributive quantifier phrases. We attribute the observed semantic effects to the interplay of 2 factors, i.e., agreement and animacy.

Links

• GA17-16111S, research and development project: Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

• MUNI/A/0831/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2017 (Acronym: SpecOJBa17)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A