Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables

We propose here to take an unusual way to analyze the countable nouns/mass nouns opposition. The path that we follow is the one where the mass/countable opposition does not meet what the semantics of prototype calls basic nouns and subordinate nouns, but where it meets the hypernyms that subsume the...

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Main Author: Georges Kleiber
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Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2016-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4382
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description We propose here to take an unusual way to analyze the countable nouns/mass nouns opposition. The path that we follow is the one where the mass/countable opposition does not meet what the semantics of prototype calls basic nouns and subordinate nouns, but where it meets the hypernyms that subsume them: ie. the superordinate nouns. Without challenging the main achievements in mass/countable studies, we see that this junction has a twofold outcome: it will enable to clarify some aspects of the issue that have been equivocal until now, and secondly, it will bring new elements to the semantics of the nouns designed to have a top position in the nominal hierarchy, but also to the mass/countable opposition itself, while supporting the importance of the notion of occurrence.
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spellingShingle Georges Kleiber
Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
Corela
mass / count
nouns
hypernyms
occurrence
nominal hierarchy
title Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
title_full Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
title_fullStr Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
title_full_unstemmed Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
title_short Sur l’opposition noms comptables / noms massifs : le cas des noms superordonnés subsumant des noms comptables
title_sort sur l opposition noms comptables noms massifs le cas des noms superordonnes subsumant des noms comptables
topic mass / count
nouns
hypernyms
occurrence
nominal hierarchy
url https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4382
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