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A curious menagerie
\"Introduces readers to sixty unusual and engaging collective nouns ranging from a flamboyance of flamingos to a mischief of mice. Includes a note about the origin of the collective nouns featured in the book\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
The mass-count distinction is certainly one of the most interesting and puzzling topics in syntax and semantics. In many ways, the topic remains under-researched with respect to its connection to cognition, and with respect to the way it may be understood ontologically. This volume aims to contribute to some of those gaps.
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Life with my family
A young girl, observing that life with her family is not easy, imagines the quintet as a pod of pelicans, a swarm of bees, or a herd of buffalo. Includes note about, and list of, collective nouns for animals.
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A storytelling of ravens
Introduces the collective names used for various animal groups, including a bloat of hippopotamuses, a tower of giraffes, and a business of ferrets.
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En savoir des choses : une étude de davar ‘chose’ dans un corpus d’hébreu parlé
Based on the CoSIH Corpus of spoken Israeli Hebrew, our study aims at examining the syntactic and pragmatic roles, in spoken Hebrew, of the seemingly meaningless lexeme davar ‘thing’. Our case study could therefore extend the reflection on general nouns and unspecified nouns of which davar and thing are a part. The studies already conducted on chose in French will help us to understand the affinities as well as the idiosyncrasies of davar in relation to its French counterpart. On the other hand, the works on thing emanating from the Anglo-Saxon tradition will allow us to consolidate the functioning of davar as a general noun in search of a context.
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A zeal of zebras : an alphabet of collective nouns
Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a different group of animals, each with its' own descriptive name.
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On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun
This article reports on a typological study of the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, based on a sample of 576 languages. I propose a set of five surface principles which interact to predict the relative frequencies of the different orders of these four elements, whereby the more principles an order conforms to, the more frequent it will be. I provide evidence that the relative frequencies of the different orders can only be described and explained in terms of semantic notions of demonstrative, numeral, and adjective, independent of their syntactic realization, and not in terms of syntactic categories. I compare my approach to a generative account of the same phenomenon by Cinque (2005). I argue that my approach accounts for the relative frequencies of the different orders better than Cinque's in a number of respects.
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Common and proper nouns in mild Alzheimer's disease
Background Disturbance in naming accuracy and reaction time (RT) is one of the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Naming performance can be considered a diagnostic key in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which has remained diagnostically challenging. Although most of the studies in this field have been conducted on the naming accuracy of common nouns, others have shown that proper nouns are more sensitive for detecting the onset of AD. This study aims to compare the naming of common and proper nouns. Method Eighty pictures of common and proper nouns (40 items each) were presented to 18 healthy older adults and 18 people with mild Alzheimer's disease using DMDX software on a laptop computer. The patients’ responses were transcribed into a pre‐designed form, and their reaction times were captured by DMDX. Result Study results indicated a significant difference in the number of errors and RTs between proper and common nouns in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (p‐value=), implying that proper nouns may be more sensitive to mild AD. Moreover, patients with mild Alzheimer's had more problems in common and proper nouns than healthy older adults. Conclusion This study demonstrated that individuals with mild AD experienced greater difficulty recalling proper nouns, which were found to be more susceptible to the effects of AD.
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