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Bc. Michaela Hulmanová

Master's thesis

Reference to kinds, genericity and mass nouns: experimental study

Reference to kinds, genericity and mass nouns: experimental study
Abstract:
Cieľom predstavenej diplomovej práce je preskúmať referenciu k druhom v slovečine a jej vzťah k denotácii mennej frázy a k denotácii predikátu. Po teoretickej časti je práca založená na rámci referencie k druhom navrhnutom Carlsonom (1977), ktorý bol následne rozšírený Chierchiom (1998) a Dayal (2004). Teoretické ukotvenie referencie k druhom práca nachádza v prístupoch Bunta (1985) a Pelletiera (1975 …more
Abstract:
The aim of the presented thesis is to investigate sorting in the Slovak language and its connection to the denotation of the NP and the denotation of the predicate. The thesis is grounded in the theoretical framework of kinds proposed by Carlson (1977), extended by Chierchia (1998) and Dayal (2004). As for the theoretical background of sorting, the thesis is based on the approaches of Bunt (1985) and …more
 

Keywords

kinds subkinds genericity episodicity sorting mass nouns mass/count distinction count nouns object mass nouns
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 1. 2024
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/xog43/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 7. 2. 2024
  • Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
  • Reader: Aviv Schoenfeld, Ph.D.

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General Linguistics / General Linguistics

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