| 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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