3 Collection nouns: State of the art and definitional delimitation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of figures XI
5. List of tables XV
6. List of abbreviations XVII
7. Introduction 1
8. I Theoretical foundations
9. 1 Nominal aspectuality and number 11
10. 2 Interim summary: From nominal aspectuality to collection nouns 35
11. 3 Collection nouns: State of the art and definitional delimitation 37
12. II The synchronic characteristics of collection nouns in present-day language
13. Introduction 83
14. 4 Semantic-syntactic characteristics: An acceptability judgement study on count collective nouns and object mass nouns 85
15. 5 Morphological characteristics: A corpus analysis of collective nonce-formations 147
16. 6 Conclusion: Linguistic characterisation of Romance collection nouns in present-day language 197
17. III The diachronic development of French collection nouns
18. Introduction 203
19. 7 State of the art: The assumed paths of lexicalisation of collection nouns 205
20. 8 Lexicalisation of collection nouns: Corpus analysis in Frantext 227
21. 9 Conclusion and discussion: Linguistic characterisation of collection nouns in language evolution 285
22. IV General conclusion and outlook
23. 10 Summary of the results and conclusion 289
24. 11 Outlook 295
25. 12 References 297
26. Subject index 317