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@misc{2244457, author = {Wągiel, Marcin}, booktitle = {Topics in Syntax and Semantics : Nominal Semantics, 26/04/2022, University of Rochester}, keywords = {collective nouns; spatial collectives; social collectives; clusters; Slavic}, language = {eng}, title = {Mereotopology across domains : Spatial and social collectives in Slavic}, year = {2022} }
TY - SLIDE ID - 2244457 AU - Wągiel, Marcin PY - 2022 TI - Mereotopology across domains : Spatial and social collectives in Slavic KW - collective nouns KW - spatial collectives KW - social collectives KW - clusters KW - Slavic N2 - 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. ER -
WĄGIEL, Marcin. Mereotopology across domains : Spatial and social collectives in Slavic. In \textit{Topics in Syntax and Semantics : Nominal Semantics, 26/04/2022, University of Rochester}. 2022.
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