WĄGIEL, Marcin. The linguistic relevance of the distinction between spatial and social collections. In Bakay, Özge; Pratley, Breanna; Neu, Eva; Deal, Peyton. NELS 52 : Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3. Amherst, MA: GLSA, 2022, p. 201-210. ISBN 979-8-3624-7446-1. |
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@inproceedings{2243519, author = {Wągiel, Marcin}, address = {Amherst, MA}, booktitle = {NELS 52 : Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3}, editor = {Bakay, Özge; Pratley, Breanna; Neu, Eva; Deal, Peyton}, keywords = {collective nouns; spatial collectives; social collectives; part-whole structures; mereotopology; roles}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Amherst, MA}, isbn = {979-8-3624-7446-1}, pages = {201-210}, publisher = {GLSA}, title = {The linguistic relevance of the distinction between spatial and social collections}, url = {https://glsa-umass.github.io/publications.html#nels}, year = {2022} }
TY - JOUR ID - 2243519 AU - Wągiel, Marcin PY - 2022 TI - The linguistic relevance of the distinction between spatial and social collections PB - GLSA CY - Amherst, MA SN - 9798362474461 KW - collective nouns KW - spatial collectives KW - social collectives KW - part-whole structures KW - mereotopology KW - roles UR - https://glsa-umass.github.io/publications.html#nels N2 - In this paper, I examine empirical foundations for distinguishing between two types of collective nouns, namely spatial collectives such as ‘stack of plates’ and social collectives like ‘committee of experts’. I revise a battery of tests proposed in the literature to distinguish between the two. I conclude that many of those tests fail since they neglect the intervening factor of (in)animacy, but there are some diagnostics that are reliable, and thus the distinction is linguistically relevant. Finally, I demonstrate that Slavic derivational morphology is sensitive to the spatial/social distinction. ER -
WĄGIEL, Marcin. The linguistic relevance of the distinction between spatial and social collections. In Bakay, Özge; Pratley, Breanna; Neu, Eva; Deal, Peyton. \textit{NELS 52 : Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3}. Amherst, MA: GLSA, 2022, p.~201-210. ISBN~979-8-3624-7446-1.
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