Mereotopology across domains : Spatial and social collectives in Slavic

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WĄGIEL Marcin

Year of publication 2022
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description 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.
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