The goal of this article is to compare
classification or classifications of nouns with the notion of occurrence. Such a comparison
has never been systematically explored until now because nobody acknowledged its interest.
We would like to show here, as regards to two categories of nouns, that it plays a crucial
part in the categorial subdivision of nouns and that it is a precious tool to understand the
full details of this subdivision. Our inquiry will be limited to countable concrete nouns and
to mass nouns and it will consist in asking in what an occurrence of those two types of name
consist of. Our inquiry, we will see, will reach two kinds of results: on the one hand, it will
give rise to a reinterpretation or throw new light on certain facts already noticed, both as
regards to nouns and determiners.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
ISBN:978-2-8124-4146-2
EAN:9782812441462
ISSN: 2262-0346
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4146-2.p.0049
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 01-05-2012
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: nouns, classification of nouns, occurrence, countable nouns, mass nouns