Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ?

Gardelle, Laure

doi:10.4000/anglophonia.1028

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“…It is an umbrella term for a range of jobs (cooks, stewards, sailors, etc. ), and stands in contrast to other classes, such as captain (Gardelle 2016a). The relation to the group, though, is not entirely lost: crew are expected to be part of crews.…”

Section: "Members": Meronymy Compared With Hyponymymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…It is a shift from the notion of group to the notion of members, rather than from a specific group to its specific members. Consequently, the uninflected plural no longer denotes a group, but comes to denote a class, a socio-professional category, albeit one in which people are expected to be members of groups (Gardelle 2016a). Hence a relation in BE (If she comes will she be second-mate or just crew?, Canning 2009: 211): crew (plural) is a hyperonym of plural classes (crew = cooks + stewards + sailors, etc.).…”

Section: "Members": Meronymy Compared With Hyponymymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The idea of a coercion is supported by the following facts: the aggregate sense is obviously secondary to the collective sense and related to it; the range of plural determiners is not freely available, 11 and stage 3 is not available for all the collective nouns that denote humans (e.g., * these committee , *a number of family ). Moreover, occasionally, the noun may be coerced further into accepting the numeral one : one crew , or one clergy , as in (11): The drawing, captioned: “It is reported that Trinity Church is considering the possibility of free pews!” consists of a laborer pointing to the bible as one clergy welcomes him into the church, while another scratches his head in confusion, and the other lifts his hand in a gesture of opposition. (COCA, 2002 – borrowed from Gardelle 2016a) …”

Section: Theoretical Considerations On the Definition Of Collective Nmentioning

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“…The noun phrase does not refer to a group, either: several crew does not mean ‘several people that form a crew’, but ‘several crew members’, ‘several members of crew’. Occasionally, therefore, several individuals referred to as crew may not belong to the same crew, as in (10) (Gardelle 2016a). Bluewater Crew is a traditional crew placement agency, with an Internet-based database of over 46,000 candidates that not only tracks career moves, but also lists qualifications, current situations, locations, references, and even personal information about what each candidate is ideally looking for.…”

Section: Theoretical Considerations On the Definition Of Collective Nmentioning

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“… 11 For instance, these / those is most common, but numerals, or a number of , seem to be restricted to some of the nouns (Gardelle 2016a). More generally, the distribution of determiners is rarely compatible with both the aggregate and the collective sense: the associated determiners for the aggregate sense are typically these/those , zero (bare noun), numerals and plural quantifiers.…”

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The grammatical tradition has excluded lexical plurals from the category of collective nouns on the sole basis of their morphology (no discrepancy between singular form and so-called plural reference); but this criterion has led to hesitations, some linguists including, for instance,cattleorpeople. This study therefore considers other, semantic, criteria to establish more convincingly whether lexical plurals that denote pluralities of entities may be collective nouns. Relying on distinctions between meronymy and (non-taxonomic) hyperonymy, collectiveness and cohesion, and(a) crew(collective sense) /(several) crew(uninflected plural), it concludes that they are definitely not collective nouns, but aggregate nouns (or senses of nouns). Two sets are established. Some, mainly denoting humans, typically originate in the collective sense of the noun through a coercion mechanism; the others, mainly denoting objects, result from an operation of abstraction. For some of these, the notion of “hyperonyms of plural classes” is put forward.

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Section: "Members": Meronymy Compared With Hyponymymentioning

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Section: Theoretical Considerations On the Definition Of Collective Nmentioning

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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ?

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Are there any collective nouns among lexical plurals in English?

Are there any collective nouns among lexical plurals in English?

La catégorisation nominale : autour de la quantité

Foliage est-il à leaves ce que jewellery est à jewels ? Etude de rapports entre dénombrables au pluriel et indénombrables singuliers

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