Javascript required
Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer
Home / Collective Nouns Holt Elements of Language 4th Edition Chapter 5

Collective Nouns Holt Elements of Language 4th Edition Chapter 5

Semantic Plurality

English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities

| Université Grenoble Alpes / LIDILEM

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027204738 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

ISBN 9789027261748 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting 'more than one' entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across number, the count/non-count distinction, and lexical/NP levels, reveals a very consistent Scale of Unit Integration, which establishes clear-cut boundaries for collective nouns, and accommodates cases such as three elephant, cattle or a chain of islands. The study also offers a refined understanding of aggregate nouns (a category nearly as large as that of collective nouns) and quantification in pseudo-partitives, develops Guillaume's notion of 'internal plurality', and proposes the innovative concept of 'hyperonyms of plural classes' (e.g. furniture). The Animacy Hierarchy is also found to be influential, beyond hybrid agreement. The book aims to be accessible to scholars of any theoretical background interested in these topics.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Why study semantic plurality and pluralities of entities?

2–26

Chapter 2. Hybrid agreement: Motivations, nature and constraints

28–52

Chapter 3. Establishing the boundaries of collective nouns for count nouns

54–102

Chapter 4. A comparison between NPs headed by count collective nouns and NPs whose /plurality/ feature is acquired in discourse

104–132

Chapter 5. Non-count singular nouns with a /plurality/ feature

134–165

Chapter 6. Lexical plurals that denote pluralities of entities

168–184

Chapter 7. General conclusion

186–191

References

193–206

General index

207

Lexical index

211
References

References

Aaron, Jane

2001The Little Brown Compact Handbook. London: Longman. Google Scholar

Abbott, Barbara

2010Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Acquaviva, Paolo

2004 "Plural Mass Nouns and the Compositionality of Number". Verbum 26:4.387–401. Google Scholar

Acquaviva, Paolo

2008Lexical Plurals: A Morphosyntactic Approach (Coll. Theoretical Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Acquaviva, Paolo

2016 "Linguistic Plurality and the Conceptualization of Part Structure". Unity and Plurality: Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics ed. by Massimilio Carrara , Alexandra Arapinis & Friederike Moltmann , 194–218. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Aitchison-Benell, C. W. & Charles D. Dondale

Alexiadou, Artemis

2011 "Plural Mass Nouns and the Morpho-syntax of Number". Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics ed. by Mary Byram Washburn et al., 33–41. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Google Scholar

Allan, Keith

1976 "Collectivizing". Archivum Linguisticum 7.99–117. Google Scholar

Allan, Keith

1980 "Nouns and Countability". Language 56:3.541–567. Crossref Google Scholar

American Heritage

1996The American Heritage Book of English Usage. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Google Scholar

Arigne, Viviane

1998 "Le Nom: Problèmes de Nombre et Catégorisation Nominale en Anglais [The noun: Number issues and nominal categorisation in English]". Mélanges Jean Tournier ed. by Catherine Paulin , 32–67. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. Google Scholar

Arigne, Viviane

2005a "Le Syntagme N1 of N2 et la Référence Multiple des Massifs Anglais [The N1 of N2 phrase and multiple reference with English mass nouns]". Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 17.7–39. Google Scholar

Arigne, Viviane

2005b "Les Discrets Collectifs face aux Massifs: Des Modes de Discrétisation du Massif [Discrete collective nouns compared with mass nouns: Ways of individuating masses]". Parcours linguistiques. Domaine anglais ed. by Geneviève Girard-Gillet . Travaux du CIEREC 122.73–87. Google Scholar

Arigne, Viviane

2006 "Les Discrets Collectifs face aux Massifs: des Modes de Discrétisation du Massif [Discrete collective nouns compared with mass nouns: Ways of individuating masses]". Cycnos 23.1. http://​revel​.unice​.fr/ (accessed September 2018) Google Scholar

Arigne, Viviane

2011 "La Figure du Tout Intégré et les Noms Discrets Collectifs [The integrated whole motif and discrete collective nouns]". Anglophonia 30.59–99. Crossref Google Scholar

Ashbrook, William

1982Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Asper-Smith, Sarah

2010Have You Ever Seen a Smack of Jellyfish? An Alphabet Book. Seattle: Little Bigfoot. Google Scholar

Audring, Jenny

2009Reinventing Pronoun Gender. Ph.D. dissertation. Utrecht: LOT.

Audring, Jenny & Geert Booij

2015 "Cooperation and Coercion". Linguistics 54:4.617–637. Google Scholar

Bache, Carl

2002 "On Categories in Linguistics". Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 34.71–105. Crossref Google Scholar

Bache, Carl & Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

1997Mastering English: An Advanced Grammar for Native and Non-Native Speakers. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Crossref Google Scholar

Bain, Alexander

1872A Higher English Grammar. New and revised edn. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. Google Scholar

Bain, Alexander

1874A Companion to the Higher English Grammar. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Google Scholar

Ballard, Kim

2013The Frameworks of English: Introducing Language Structures. 3rd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar

Barner, David & Jesse Snedeker

2005 "Quantity Judgments and Individuation: Evidence that Mass Nouns Count". Cognition 97.41–66. Crossref Google Scholar

Barnes, Dame Juliana

1486Book of St Albans: Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting and Cote Armour. London: Eliot Stock. Google Scholar

Bauer, Laurie

1988 "Number agreement with collective nouns in New Zealand English". Australian Journal of Linguistics 8.247–259. Crossref Google Scholar

Bauer, Laurie

1994Watching English Change. London: Longman. Google Scholar

Beckwith, Christopher I.

2007Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive construction (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics vol. 68). New York: Peter Lang. Google Scholar

Benninger, Céline

2001 "Une Meute de Loups / une Brassée de Questions: Collection, Quantification et Métaphore [A pack of wolves / an armful of questions: Collection, quantification and metaphor]". Langue française 129.21–34. Crossref Google Scholar

Berland-Delépine, Serge

1995La Grammaire Anglaise de l'Etudiant. Revised edn. In collaboration with R. Butler. Paris: Ophrys. Google Scholar

Biber, Douglas et al.

1999Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Pearson. Google Scholar

Boas, Franz

1911 "Introduction". Handbook of American Indian Languages ed. by Franz Boas , part I, 1–83. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Google Scholar

Bock, Kathryn & Kathleen Eberhard

1993 "Meaning, Sound and Syntax in English Number Agreement". Language and Cognitive Processes 8:1.57–99. Crossref Google Scholar

Bock, Kathryn et al.

2006 "Number Agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to Agree Collectively". Language 82:1.64–113. Crossref Google Scholar

Borer, Hagit

2005Structuring Sense. Vol. 1: In Name Only. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Borillo, Andrée

1997 "Statut et Mode d'Interprétation des Noms Collectifs [Status and mode of interpretation of collective nouns]". Co-texte et calcul du sens. Actes de la table ronde tenue à Caen, 23 février 1996 ed. by Claude Guimier , 105–119. Caen: Université de Caen. Google Scholar

Bradley, Eric

2015Antiques & Collectibles 2016 Price Guide. 32nd edn. Iola, Wisconsin: F+W Media. Google Scholar

Brems, Lieselotte

2011Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Crossref Google Scholar

Brown, Goold

1869The Grammar of English Grammars, with an Introduction, Historical and Critical; the Whole Methodically Arranged and Amply Illustrated. 10th edn. New York: William Wood & Co. Google Scholar

Butterfield, Jeremy

2013The Oxford A-Z of English Usage. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Butterfield, Jeremy

2015Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Carlson, Gregory N. & Francis Jeffry Pelletier

eds. 1995The Generic Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar

Carrara, Massimiliano & Friederike Moltmann

2016 "Introduction". Carrara , Arapinis & Moltmann , eds. 2016, vii–xv. Google Scholar

Carrara, Massimiliano, Alexandra Arapinis & Friederike Moltmann

eds. 2016Unity and Plurality: Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Champollion, Lucas

2017Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge between Aspect and Measurement. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Chapman, Shirley & Desmond C. Derbyshire

1991 "Paumari". Handbook of Amazonian Languages. Vol. III ed. by Desmond C. Derbyshire & Geoffrey K. Pullum , 161–352. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar

Chelaru-Ionita, Oana & Andrei Bantas

1981 "English versus Romanian Collectives". Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 13.223–248. Google Scholar

Cheng, Chung-Ying

1973 "Response to Moravcsik". Approaches to Natural Language ed. by Jaakko Hintikka , 286–288. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Crossref Google Scholar

Cherchia, Gennaro

1998 "Reference to Kinds across Languages". Natural Language Semantics 6.339–405. Crossref Google Scholar

Clarke, Hyde

1859A Grammar of the English Tongue, Spoken and Written; for Self-teaching and for Schools. 2nd edn. London: John Weale. Google Scholar

Corbett, Greville G.

1979 "The Agreement Hierarchy". Journal of Linguistics 15:2.203–224. Crossref Google Scholar

Collings, Rex

1991A Crash of Rhinoceroses: A Dictionary of Collective Nouns. London: Bellew. Google Scholar

Corbett, Greville G.

1991Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Corbett, Greville G.

2000Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Corbett, Greville G.

2006Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Corbett, Greville G.

2012Features. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Cossins, Jennifer

2017101 Collective Nouns. Sydney: Lothian Children's Books. Google Scholar

Cotte, Pierre

1996L'Explication Grammaticale de Textes Anglais [ The grammatical explanation of English texts ]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Google Scholar

Croft, William

2003Typology and Universals. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Croft, William

2012Verbs: Aspects and Causal Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Croft, William & D. Alan Cruse

2004Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Cruse, D. Alan

1986Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Cruse, D. Alan

1995 "Polysemy and Related Phenomena from a Cognitive Linguistic Viewpoint". Computational Lexical Semantics ed. by Patrick Saint-Dizier & Evelyn Viegas , 33–49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Crystal, David

2003The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Culioli, Antoine

1990Pour une Linguistique de l'Enonciation. Vol. 1 : Opérations et Représentations [ For a linguistics of enunciation. Operations and representations ]. Paris: Ophrys. Google Scholar

Dancygier, Barbara

2009 "Genitives and Proper Names in Constructional Blends". New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics ed. by Vyvyan Evans & Stéphanie Pourcel , 161–183. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Dancygier, Barbara & Eve Sweetser

2014Figurative Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Daniel, Michael & Edith Moravcsik

2013 "The Associative Plural". The World Atlas of Language Structures Online ed. by Matthew S. Dryer , & Martin Haspelmath , 150–153. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://​wals​.info​/chapter​/36 (accessed February 2017.) Google Scholar

Dalzell, Tom & Terri Victor

2015The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Crossref Google Scholar

Davidson, George W.

1985Chambers Pocket Guide to Good English. Edinburgh: Chambers. Google Scholar

Davies, Mark

2008–The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): 560 million words, 1990-present. Available online at https://​corpus​.byu​.edu​/coca/. (accessed April 2019) Google Scholar

Davis, John

1830Murray's English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. Belfast: Simms & M'Intyre. Google Scholar

Dekeyser, Xavier

1975Number and Case Relations in 19th Century British English: A Comparative Study of Grammar and Usage. Antwerp: Bibliotheca linguistica. Google Scholar

Delille, C.-J.

1851A French Grammar in Two Parts. London: Whittaker. Google Scholar

Den Dikken, Marcel

2001 "'Pluringulars', Pronouns and Quirky Agreement". The Linguistic Review 18.19–41. Google Scholar

Depraetere, Ilse

2003 "On Verbal Concord with Collective Nouns in British English". English Language and Linguistics 7.85–127. Crossref Google Scholar

Deterding, David

2007Singapore English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Dexter, Colin

1990The Wench Is Dead. London: Pan Books. Google Scholar

Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française

Diewald, Gabriele

2002 "A Model for Relevant Types of Contexts in Grammaticalization". New Reflections on Grammaticalization ed. by Ilse Wischer & Gabriele Diewald , 103–120. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Doggett, Ralph M., Mary K. O'Farrell & Andrea L. Watson

1980Forecasts of the Quantity and Composition of Solid Waste (Research Reporting Series). Cincinnati, Ohio: United States Environmental Protection Agency. Google Scholar

Dowty, David

1987 "Events, Aspects, and NP Semantics". Paper presented at the Conference on Logic and Linguistics, Stanford University, July 1987.

Dubois, Jean & Françoise Dubois-Charlier

1996 "Collectifs d'Etres Vivants [Collective nouns for living beings]", Linx 34–35.125–132. Crossref Google Scholar

The Economist

2015The Economist Style Guide. 11th edn. London: Profile Books. Google Scholar

Elson, Ben

1960 "Sierra Popoluca Morphology". International Journal of American Linguistics 26.206–223. Crossref Google Scholar

Entick, John

1728Speculum Latinum, or, Latin Made Easy to Scholars, by an English Grammar Only. London: R. Tookey. Google Scholar

Evans, Gareth

1977 "Pronouns, Quantifiers and Relative Clauses (I)". The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7:3.467–536. Crossref Google Scholar

Eysenck, Michael W. & Mark T. Keane

2005Cognitive Psychology. A Student's Handbook. 5th edn. Hove: Psychology Press. Google Scholar

Fauconnier, Gilles & Eve Sweetser

eds. 1996Spaces, Worlds, and Grammars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar

Fernández Pena, Yolanda

2018Determinants of Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects: A Corpus-Based Analysis in English. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Vigo.

Flaux, Nelly

1999 "A Propos des Noms Collectifs [About collective nouns]". Revue de linguistique romane 251–252:63.471–502. Google Scholar

Flaux, Nelly & Danièle Van de Velde

2000Les Noms en Français: Esquisse de Classement [ Nouns in French: Tentative Classification ]. Paris: Ophrys. Google Scholar

Frawley, William

2013 [1992]Linguistic Semantics. New York: Routledge. Crossref Google Scholar

Fries, Udo

1981 "Zur Kongruenz bei Kollektiven [On congruence with collective nouns]". Europäische Mehrsprachigkeit: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Mario Wandruszka ed. by Wolfgang Pöckl , 19–27. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. Google Scholar

Fries, Udo

1988 "The Crew Have Abandoned the Ship. Concord with Collective Nouns Revisited". Arbeiten aus Anglistik and Amerikanistik 13.98–104. Google Scholar

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyam

2014An Introduction to Language. 10th edn. Boston: Wadsworth. Google Scholar

Furukawa, Naoyo

1977Le Nombre Grammatical en Français Contemporain [ Grammatical Number in Contemporary French ]. Tokyo: Librairie-Editions France Tosho. Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2006Le genre en anglais moderne (XVIe siècle à nos jours): le système des pronoms personnels [ Gender in Modern English (16th century to the present): The system of personal pronouns ]. Ph.D. dissertation, Université Paris 4-Sorbonne.

Gardelle, Laure

2014Les Noms Collectifs en Anglais: Définition et Typologie [ Collective nouns in English: Definition and typology ]. HDR monograph, Paris Sorbonne Université.

Gardelle, Laure

2016a " Five Crew, How Many Clergy: Pourquoi Certains Noms Collectifs Peuvent-ils Servir à Nommer des Membres? [ Five crew, how many clergy: Why can some collective nouns be used to name members?]" Anglophonia – French Journal of English Linguistics 22. http://​journals​.openedition​.org​/anglophonia​/1028 (accessed September 2018) Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2016b "Lexical Plurals for Aggregates of Discrete Entities: Why Plural, Yet Non-count, Nouns?" Lingvisticae Investigationes 39:2.355–372. Crossref Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2017 "Are Superordinates such as Furniture and Belongings Collective Nouns?" Lingvisticae Investigationes 40:2.150–172. Crossref Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2018a "Are there any Collective Nouns among Lexical Plurals in English?" Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue Canadienne de Linguistique 63:1.25–41. Crossref Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2018b " Foliage Est-il à Leaves ce que Jewellery Est à Jewels? Etude de Rapports entre Dénombrables au Pluriel et Indénombrables Singuliers [Is foliage to leaves what jewellery is to jewels? Case study of the relationship between plural count nouns and singular non-count nouns]" Anglophonia – French Journal of English Linguistics 26. https://​journals​.openedition​.org​/anglophonia​/1639 (accessed April 2018) Google Scholar

Gardelle, Laure

2019 " A Forest of Hands, a Chain of Islands and Tons of Ideas: Interactions between Constructional and Nominal Semantics in the Definition of 'Collective Nouns'." Paper presented at the conference Nouns between syntax and semantics , Sorbonne Université, 29–30 March 2019.

Gardelle, Laure & Sandrine Sorlin

2018 "Introduction: Anthropocentrism, Egocentrism and the Notion of Animacy Hierarchy". From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse ed. by Laure Gardelle & Sandrine Sorlin . International Journal of Language and Culture (IJOLC) 5:2.133–162. Crossref Google Scholar

Garner, Bryan A.

2000The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

van Gelderen, Elly

2006A History of the English Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Gerstein, Larry J.

1996Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Proofs. New York: Springer. Google Scholar

Gil, David

1996 "Maltese 'Collective Nouns': A Typological Perspective". Rivista di Linguistica 8:1.53–87. Google Scholar

Gil, David

2005 "Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers". The World Atlas of Language Structures ed. by Martin Haspelmath , Matthew S. Dyer , David Gil & Bernard Comrie , 230–233. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Goddard, Cliff

2010 "A Piece of Cheese, a Grain of Sand: The Semantics of Mass Nouns and Unitizers". Kinds, Things and Stuff: Mass Terms and Generics ed. by Francis Jeffry Pelletier , 132–165. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Goes, Jan

1999L'Adjectif entre Nom et Verbe [ The adjective between noun and verb ]. Paris: Duculot. Google Scholar

Goldstein, Norm

2004The Associated Press Stylebook. New York: Basic Books. Google Scholar

Greenbaum, Sidney

1996The Oxford English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Grimm, Scott & Beth Levin

Grimm, Scott & Beth Levin

Gross, Gaston

2008 "Sur le Statut Syntaxique des Substantifs Humains [On the syntactic status of human substantives]". Des topoï à la théorie des stéréotypes en passant par la polyphonie et l'argumentation dans la langue. Hommages à Jean-Claude Anscombre [ From topoï through polyphony and argumentation in language, to stereotype theory. In honour of Jean-Claude Anscombre ] ed. by Danielle Leeman , 27–40. Chambéry: Université de Savoie. Google Scholar

Guillaume, Gustave

1964Langage et Science du Langage [ Language and language science ]. Paris: Nizet. Google Scholar

Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan

2010Human Nature: The Categorial Framework. Maldon, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. Google Scholar

Hausdorff, Felix

1957Set Theory. Transl. from German by John R. Aumann et al. New York: Chelsea Publishing. Google Scholar

Heffer, Simon

ed. 2010The Telegraph Style Guide. London: Telegraph. Google Scholar

Hirtle, Walter

1982Number and Inner Space: A Study of Grammatical Number in English (Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage). Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval. Google Scholar

Hirtle, Walter

2009 "Number: Testing for ø morpheme". Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English: From Representation to Reference. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Google Scholar

Huber, Magnus & Kari Dako

2008 "Ghanaian English: Morphology and Syntax". Varieties of English, vol. IV: Africa, South and Southeast Asia ed. by Rajend Mesthrie , 368–380. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar

Huddleston, Rodney & Geoffrey K. Pullum

2002The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Huddleston, Rodney & Geoffrey K. Pullum

2005A Student's Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Hundt, Marianne

1998New Zealand English Grammar: Fact or Fiction? A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Hundt, Marianne

2006 " The Committee Has/Have Decided … On Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Inner- and Outer-Circle Varieties of English". Journal of English Linguistics 34:3.206–232. Crossref Google Scholar

Hundt, Marianne

2009a "Concord with Collective Nouns in Australian and New Zealand English". Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English ed. by Pam Peters , Peter Collins & Adam Smith , 207–224. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Hundt, Marianne

2009b "Colonial Lag, Colonial Innovation or Simply Language Change?" One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English ed. by Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter , 13–37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Huntley, David

1989 "Grammatical and Lexical Features in Number and Gender Agreement in Old Bulgarian". Palaeobulgarica 13:4.21–32. Google Scholar

Iris, Madelyn Anne, Bonnie E. Litowitz & Martha Evens

1988 "Problems of the Part-Whole Relation". Relational Models of the Lexicon ed. by Martha Walton Evens , 261–288. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Jackendoff, Ray

1977X' Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure Grammar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Google Scholar

Jackendoff, Ray

1991 "Parts and Boundaries". Cognition 41.9–45. Crossref Google Scholar

Jackendoff, Ray

2012 "Language as a Source of Evidence for Theories of Spatial Representation". Perception 41.1128–1152. Crossref Google Scholar

Jespersen, Otto

1965 [1913]A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Part II, vol. I: Syntax. London: George Allen & Unwin. Google Scholar

Johansson, Stig

1979 "American and British English Grammar: An Elicitation Experiment". English Studies 60.195–215. Crossref Google Scholar

Johnson, Samuel & John Walker

1828A Dictionary of the English Language. London: William Pickering. Google Scholar

Johnson, Samuel & John Walker

1862Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language. Preceded by a Complete English Grammar. New York: Leavitt & Allen. Google Scholar

Joosten, Frank

2001 "De 'boorbaarheid' van Nederlandse collectiva [On 'permeability' among Dutch collective nouns]". Over Taal 40.77–79. Google Scholar

Joosten, Frank

2010 "Collective Nouns, Aggregate Nouns, and Superordinates: When 'Part of' and 'Kind of' meet". Lingvisticae Investigationes 33:1.25–49. Crossref Google Scholar

Juul, Arne

1975On Concord of Number in Modern English. Copenhagen: Nova. Google Scholar

Keenan, Edward L. & Leonard M. Faltz

1985Boolean Semantics for Natural Language. Dordrecht: Reidel. Google Scholar

Keizer, Evelien

2007The English Noun Phrase. The Nature of Linguistic Categorization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Kendall, Kevin

2004Molecular Adhesion and Its Applications: The Sticky Universe. New York: Kluwer. Google Scholar

Kerl, Simon

1867Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, for the Use of Schools. 11th edn. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & co. Google Scholar

Kim, Jong-Bok

2004 "Hybrid agreement in English". Linguistics 42:6.1105–1128. Crossref Google Scholar

Kirkby, John

1971 [1746]A New English Grammar. Menton: Scolar Press. Google Scholar

Kleiber, Georges

1991 "Anaphore/deixis: où en sommes-nous? [Anaphora/deixis: Where do we stand?]" L'Information Grammaticale 51.3–18. Crossref Google Scholar

Kleiber, Georges

1990L'article LE Générique. La Généricité sur le Mode Massif [ The generic LE article. Genericity in the mass mode ]. Geneva: Droz. Google Scholar

Kortmann, Bernd et al.

eds. 2004A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multimedia Reference Tool. Vol. II: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

2001 "'A Piece of Cake and 'a Cup of Tea': Partitive and Pseudo-partitive Nominal Constructions in the Circum-Baltic Languages". The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact, vol. II ed. by Östen Dahl & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm , 523–568. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

2004 "Mass and Collection". Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation, vol. II ed. by Geert Booij , Christian Lehmann & Joachim Mugdan , 1067–1072. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Google Scholar

Lakaw, Alexander

2017 "Diachronic Shifts in Agreement Patterns of Collective Nouns in 19th-Century American and British English". Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, vol. 18: Exploring Recent Diachrony: Corpus Studies of Lexicogrammar and Language Practices in Late Modern English ed. by Sebastian Hoffmann , Andrea Sand & Sabine Arndt-Lappe , 1–33. Helsinki: VARIENG, University of Helsinki. http://​www​.helsinki​.fi​/varieng​/series​/volumes​/18​/lakaw/ (accessed 30 April 2019) Google Scholar

Lammert, Marie

2010Sémantique et Cognition: Les Noms Collectifs [ Semantics and cognition: Collective nouns ]. Geneva: Droz. Google Scholar

Lammert, Marie

2014 "Référence Collective vs. Référence Plurielle Indéfinie [Collective reference vs. indefinite plural reference]". Langue française 2014:3.87–99. Crossref Google Scholar

Lammert, Marie & Michelle Lecolle

2014 "Les Noms Collectifs en Français, Une Vue d'Ensemble [French collective nouns, an overview]". La sémantique en France: un état des lieux Cahiers de Lexicologie ed. by Jean-Claude Anscombre & Juliette Delahaie . Cahiers de lexicologie 105:2.203–222. Google Scholar

Landman, Fred

1989 "Groups, I" & "Groups, II". Linguistics and Philosophy 12:6.559–605, 723–744. Crossref Google Scholar

Langacker, Ronald W.

1987Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. 1: Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Google Scholar

Langacker, Ronald W.

1991Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. 2: Descriptive Applications. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Google Scholar

Langacker, Ronald W.

2008Cognitive Linguistics: A Basic Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Larreya, Paul & Claude Rivière

2005Grammaire Explicative de l'Anglais. 3rd edn. Paris: Pearson Education. Google Scholar

Lasersohn, Peter

1995Plurality, Conjunction and Events. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. Crossref Google Scholar

Lass, Roger

1987 "Language, Speakers, History and Drift". Explanation and Linguistic Change ed. by Willem F. Koopman , Frederike van der Leek , Olga Fischer & Roger Eaton , 151–176. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar

Latham, Robert Gordon

1850The English Language. 3rd edn. London: Taylor, Walton & Maberly. Google Scholar

Laycock, Henry

2006Words without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française

2005–2017 Online edn. Paris: Le Robert. Google Scholar

Lecolle, Michelle

1998 "Noms Collectifs et Méronymies [Collective nouns and meronymies]". Cahiers de Grammaire 23.41–65. Google Scholar

Lecolle, Michelle

2008 "Identité/Altérité et Noms Collectifs Humains: Le Cas de Communauté [Identity/alterity and human collective nouns: A case study of community ]". La Responsabilité Collective dans la Presse ed. by Alain Rabatel & Roselyne Koren . Question de Communication 13.323–342. https://​journals​.openedition​.org​/questionsdecommunication​/1862 (accessed September 2018) Google Scholar

Lecolle, Michelle & Sarah Leroy

2006 "Collectif, Massif et Partition dans les Figures du Nom Propre [Collective, mass and partition in figures that involve a proper noun]". La Relation Partie-Tout ed. by Georges Kleiber , Catherine Schnedecker & Anne Theissen , 543–558. Leuven: Peeters. Google Scholar

Levin, Magnus

1999 "Concord with Collective Nouns Revisited". ICAME Journal 23.21–33. Google Scholar

Levin, Magnus

2001Agreement with Collective Nouns in English. Lund: Lund University Press. Google Scholar

Levin, Magnus

2006 "Collective Nouns and Language Change". English Language and Linguistics 10:2.321–343. Crossref Google Scholar

Liedtke, Ernst

1910Die Numerale Auffassung der Kollektiva im Laufe der Englischen Sprachgeschichte [ Approaches to the number of collective nouns in the history of English ]. Königsberg: Karg & Manneck. Google Scholar

Lim, Lisa

2004Singapore English: A Grammatical Description. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Link, Godehard

1983 "The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice Theoretical Approach". Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language ed. by Rainer Bäuerle , Christoph Schwarze & Arnim von Stechow , 302–323. Berlin: de Gruyter. Crossref Google Scholar

Link, Godehard

1998 "Ten Years of Research on Plurals: Where Do we Stand?" Plurality and Quantification ed. by Fritz Hamm & Erhard Hinrichs , 19–54. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 69.19–54. Crossref Google Scholar

Lipton, James

1993An Exaltation of Larks. Ultimate edn. New York: Penguin. Google Scholar

Lønning, Jan Tore

2011 "Plurals and Collectives". Handbook of Logic and Language. 2nd edn, ed. by Johan van Benthem & Alice ter Meulen , 989–1034. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Crossref Google Scholar

Lowe, Ronald

(ed.) 2007Essais et Mémoires de Gustave Guillaume [ Essays and memoirs of Gustave Guillaume ]. Vol. 3, Essai de mécanique intuitionnelle I : Espace et temps en pensée commune et dans les structures de langue [Essays of intuitional mechanics I: Space and Time in common thought and in language structures]. Text established by Renée Tremblay. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval. Google Scholar

Lyons, Christopher

1999Definiteness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Lyons, John

1977Semantics. Vol. I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Maloney, David J.., Jr

2003Maloney's Antiques and Collectibles Resource Directory. 7th edn. Fairfield, Ohio: Antique Trader Books. Google Scholar

Marckwardt, Albert H.

1958American English. London: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Marcus, Ruth Barcan

1974 "Classes, Collections, and Individuals". American Philosophical Quarterly 11:3.227–232. Google Scholar

Markman, Ellen M.

1985 "Why Superordinate Category Terms Can Be Mass Nouns". Cognition 19.31–53. Crossref Google Scholar

Markman, Ellen M., Marjorie Horton & A. G. McLanahan

1980 "Classes and Collections: Principles of Organization in the Learning of Hierarchical Relations". Cognition 8:3.227–241. Crossref Google Scholar

Marmaridou, Sophia

2013 "Towards a Constructional Account of Indefinite Uses of Proper Names in Greek". Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, vol. I ed. by Nikolaos Lavidas , Thomaï Alexiou & Areti Maria Sougari , 67–98. London: Versita. Google Scholar

McKay, Sandra Lee & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng

2008International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts. New York: Routledge. Google Scholar

Merriam-Webster

1989Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster. Google Scholar

Michael, Ian

1970English Grammatical Categories and the Tradition to 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar

Mollin, Sandra

2007 "The Hansard Hazard. Gauging the Accuracy of British Parliamentary Transcripts". Corpora 2:2.187–210. Crossref Google Scholar

Moltmann, Friederike

1997Parts and Wholes in Semantics. New York: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Moltmann, Friederike

2016 "Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality: Linguistic Facts and Semantic Analyses". Carrara , Arapinis & Moltmann , eds. 2016, 93–120. Google Scholar

Montler, Timothy

1986An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish. Missoula, Montana: University of Montana. Google Scholar

Morgan, Jerry L.

1984 "Some Problems of Determination of English Number Agreement". Escol '84: Proceedings of the First Eastern States Conference on Linguistics ed. by Gloria Alvarez , Belinda Brodie & Terry McCoy , 69–78. Columbus: Ohio State University. Google Scholar

Murphy, Gregory Leo

2004The Big Book of Concepts. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Google Scholar

Murphy, M. Lynne

2010Lexical Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Murray, Lindley

1816An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language. Vol. I. 3rd edn. York: Wilson and Sons. Google Scholar

Nixon, Graham

1972 "Corporate-Concord Phenomena in English". Studia Neophilologica 44.120–126. Crossref Google Scholar

Nuessel, Frank

1984 "(Dis)agreement in Spanish". Papers in Linguistics 17.267–281. Crossref Google Scholar

Oakeshott, R. Ewart

1996 [1960]The Archaeology of Weapons. Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. Google Scholar

OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online

OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online

Palin, Steve

2013A Murmuration of Starlings: The Collective Nouns of Animals and Birds. Ludlow: Merlin Unwin. Google Scholar

Pelletier, Francis Jeffry & Lenhart K. Schubert

1989 "Mass Expressions". Handbook of Philosophical Logic, vol. 10 ed. by Dov M. Gabbay & Franz Guenthner , 327–407. Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands. Crossref Google Scholar

Pennec, Blandine

2008 "Phénomènes de Discordance entre Morphologie et Syntaxe: de la Zizanie dans le Collectif!" [Cases of discrepancy between morphology and syntax: What a mess among collectives!]. Corela 6.2. https://​journals​.openedition​.org​/corela​/274 Google Scholar

Persson, Gunnar

1989 "On the Semantics of Collective Nouns in English". Instead of Flowers. Papers in honour of Mats Rydén ed. by Bengt Odenstedt & Gunnar Persson , 179–195. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. Google Scholar

Potter, Michael

2004Set Theory and its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Crossref Google Scholar

Poutsma, Hendrik

1914A Grammar of Late Modern English. Vol. 3. Part II: Parts of Speech, section 1, A: Nouns, Adjectives and Particles. Groningen: P. Noordhoff. Google Scholar

Quackenbos, George Payn

1869An English Grammar. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Google Scholar

Quine, Willard van Orman

1960Word and Object. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT. Google Scholar

Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum , Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik

1972A Grammar of Contemporary English. London: Longman. Google Scholar

Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum , Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik

1985A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman. Google Scholar

Radden, Günter & René Dirven

2007Cognitive English Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Reed, Stephen K.

2012Cognitive Theories and Applications. 9th edn. Belmont: Wadsworth. Google Scholar

Rhodes, Chloe

2014An Unkindness of Ravens. A Book of Collective Nouns. London: Michael O'Mara. Google Scholar

Riegel, Martin, Jean-Christophe Pellat & René Rioul

1999Grammaire Méthodique du Français [ Methodological Grammar of French ]. 5th edn. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Google Scholar

Romaine, Suzanne

2000Language in Society. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Rothstein, Susan

2011 "Counting, Measuring and the Semantics of Classifiers". The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication vol. VI, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Contexts, and Models, ed. by Barbara H. Partee , Michael Glanzberg & Jurģis Šķilters ,Michael Glanzberg et al., 1–42. Manhattan: New Prairie. https://​newprairiepress​.org​/biyclc​/vol6​/iss1​/15/ (accessed September 2018) Google Scholar

Rutkowski, Pawel

2007 "The Syntactic Structure of Grammaticalized Partitives (Pseudo-partitives)". University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium , 337–350. Philadelphia: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

Sacher, Jay & Woop Studios

2013A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Ardvaarks to a Zeal of Zebras. San Francisco: Chronicle. Google Scholar

Salam, Maya, Liam Stack & Kelly Whiteside

Sand, Andrea

2005Angloversals? Shared Morpho-Syntactic Features in Contact Varieties of English. Habilitationsschrift, Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Google Scholar

Sasse, Hans-Jürgen

1993 "Syntactic Categories and Subcategories". Syntax. Ein Internationales Handbuch Zeitgenössischer Forschung, vol. II ed. by Joachim Jacobs , Arnim von Stechow , Wolfgang Sternefeld & Theo Vennemann , 646–686. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Google Scholar

Schneider, Edgar

2003 "The Dynamics of New Englishes: From Identity Construction to Dialect Birth". Language 79:2.233–81. Crossref Google Scholar

Schwarzschild, Roger

1996Pluralities. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. Crossref Google Scholar

Scrivenor, Patrick

2010I Used to Know That – English. London: Michael O'Mara Books. Google Scholar

Selkirk, Elisabeth O.

1977 "Some Remarks on Noun Phrase Structure". Formal Syntax: Papers from the MSSB-UC Irvine Conference on the Formal Syntax of Natural Language, Newport Beach, California ed. by Peter W. Culicover , Thomas Wasow & Adrian Akmajian , 285–316. New York: Academic Press. Google Scholar

Serbat, Guy

1993 "Guillaume et le Système du Nombre [Guillaume and the number system]" Faits de langues 2.71–77. Crossref Google Scholar

Siemund, Peter

2008Pronominal Gender in English. A study of English Varieties from a Cross-linguistic Perspective. London: Routledge. Google Scholar

Siemund, Rainer

1995 "For Who the Bell Tolls – or Why Corpus Linguistics Should Carry the Bell in the Study of Language Change in Present-day English". Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20.351–377. Google Scholar

Sportiche, Dominique, Hilda Koopman & Edward Stabler

2014An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Google Scholar

Steele, Susan

1978 "Word Order Variation: A Typology Study". Universals of Human Language, vol. IV: Syntax, ed. by Joseph H. Greenberg , Charles A. Ferguson & Edith A. Moravcsik , 585–623. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Google Scholar

Taylor, John R.

2003Linguistic Categorization (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics). 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar

Teacher Created Materials

2006Grammar, Usage and Mechanics. Secondary level. Time Learning Ventures. Huntington Beach, CA: Teacher Created Materials. Google Scholar

Thompson, Rick

2010Writing for Broadcast Journalists. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge. Crossref Google Scholar

Toupin, Fabienne

2015 "About Plural Morphology and Game Animals: From Old English to Present-Day English". Lexis 9.95–122. Google Scholar

Trask, Robert Lawrence

2007Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts. 2nd edn, ed. by Peter Stockwell . Abingdon: Routledge. Crossref Google Scholar

TLFi (Trésor de la langue française informatisé)

Tristram, Anna

2014Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax. The Case of Collective Nouns. Abingdon: Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge. Google Scholar

Tucker, G. Richard, Wallace E. Lambert & André Rigault

1977The French Speaker's Skill with Grammatical Gender: An Example of Rule-Governed Behavior. The Hague: Mouton. Google Scholar

Tversky, Barbara

1990 "Where Partonomies and Taxonomies Meet". Meaning and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization ed. by Savas L. Tshohatzidis , 334–344. London: Routledge. Google Scholar

Ungerer, Friedrich & Hans-Jörg Schmid

2006An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. 2nd edn. London: Longman. Google Scholar

Valin, Roch, Walter Hirtle & André Joly

eds. 1992Leçons de Linguistique de Gustave Guillaume [ Gustave Guillaume's linguistics lessons ]. Vol. 12: Leçons de l'année 1938–1939 [ Lessons of the year 1938–1939 ]. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval. Google Scholar

Webster, Noah

1787A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Part II. 3rd edn. Philadelphia: Young and McCulloch. Google Scholar

Webster, Noah

1828An American Dictionary of the English Language. Vol. I. New York: Converse. Google Scholar

Wickens, Mark A.

1992Grammatical Number in English Nouns: An Empirical and Theoretical Account (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 76). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Wierzbicka, Anna

1988The Semantics of Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Winston, Morton E., Roger Chaffin & Douglas Herrmann

1987 "A Taxonomy of Part-Whole Relations". Cognitive Science 11.417–444. Crossref Google Scholar

Winter, Yoad

2002 "Atoms and Sets: A Characterization of Semantic Number". Linguistic Inquiry 33:2.493–505. Crossref Google Scholar

Wong, May Lai-Yin

2009 "Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Hong Kong English. With Illustrative Material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong Component)". Linguistik Online 37:1.59–68. Crossref Google Scholar

Wyss, Simone

1983Genre et Pronoms du Vieil-anglais à l'Anglais Moderne[Gender and pronouns from Old English to Modern English]. Amiens: Université de Picardie. Google Scholar

Ziegeler, Debra

2000Hypothetical Modality. Grammaticalisation in an L2 Dialect. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Crossref Google Scholar

Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

No author info given

2021.  In A Theory of Distributed Number [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269], Crossref logo

Kostadinova, Viktorija, Marco Wiemann, Gea Dreschler, Sune Gregersen, beáta Gyuris, A I Zhong, Maggie Scott, Lieselotte Anderwald, Beke Hansen, Sven Leuckert, Tihana Kraš, Shawnea Sum Pok Ting, Ida Parise Alessia Cogo, Elisabeth Reber & Furzeen Ahmed

2021. English Language. The Year's Work in English Studies Crossref logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 21 october 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

Collective Nouns Holt Elements of Language 4th Edition Chapter 5

Source: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.349