In:Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 349] 2019
► pp. 53–102
Chapter 3Establishing the boundaries of collective nouns for count nouns
Published online: 7 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.349.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.349.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Further construal characteristics of collective nouns that license hybrid
agreement
- 3.1.1Cohesion of the units
- 3.1.2A bounded plurality
- 3.1.3Non additivity considered further: Extreme heterogeneity in the degrees of permeability
- 3.1.4Collective nouns, senses and facets: Hybrid agreement does not guarantee a collective noun
- 3.1.4.1Distinction between lexicon-based and discourse-based collective reference
- 3.1.4.2Exclusions from the class of collective nouns
- 3.1.4.3Summary: Types of collectiveness and consequences for hybrid agreement
- 3.1.5Units of the same type not found to be a prerequisite
- 3.2Boundaries of the class of count collective nouns for humans
- 3.2.1Exclusion of enemy
- 3.2.2Exclusion of the taxon/exemplar relation: The case of race
- 3.2.3Inclusion of underdetermined nouns (e.g. group)
- 3.2.4A list of human count collective nouns
- 3.2.4.1Data collection procedure
- 3.2.4.2A list of count collective nouns for humans
- 3.3Boundaries of the class of count collective nouns for animals
- 3.3.1From flocks and herds to auroras of polar bears: Are all these collective?
- 3.3.1.1Preliminary overview of count nouns used to denote pluralities of animals
- 3.3.1.2Only a minority of these nouns are actually collective
- 3.3.2Exclusion of the taxon/exemplar relation: The case of breed and species
- 3.3.2.1Literal uses for animals
- 3.3.2.2Metaphorical extensions: Comparison with kind and generation
- 3.3.3Inclusion of count uses of fauna
- 3.3.4A list of count collective nouns for animals
- 3.3.1From flocks and herds to auroras of polar bears: Are all these collective?
- 3.4Count collective nouns that denote pluralities of inanimates
- 3.4.1Inclusions and exclusions: A closer look at potential problem cases
- 3.4.1.1Books and other written documents (e.g. anthology)
- 3.4.1.2Nouns that denote networks
- 3.4.1.3Durations (e.g. week)
- 3.4.1.4Alphabet
- 3.4.2A list of inanimate count collective nouns that may occur without an of-complement
- 3.4.3A comparison between inanimate and animate count collective nouns
- 3.4.1Inclusions and exclusions: A closer look at potential problem cases
- 3.5.The boundaries of collective nouns among N1s in binominal NPs
- 3.5.1From pseudo-partitives to the organised plurality construction
- 3.5.2Meaning relations when N1 is uncontroversially collective
- 3.5.3Extension 1: Collective nouns in metaphorical uses are still collective
- 3.5.4Extension 2: Loss of collective status in rare cases of reanalysis of the construction
- 3.5.5Application to N1s that are not of collective origin: Rejection of collective status
- 3.6Conclusion
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