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Title Alternative | An Analysis of Pluralized Abstract Nouns: With Special Reference to Richardson's Epistolary Novels
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Abstract | Unlike Japanese, English makes a clear distinction between 'singular' and 'plural' by grammatical nleans. Although the concept of plural should logically be applied to countable nouns, there are quite a few examples found in actual use of the language where an uncountable noun takes a plural form. Some abstract nouns can be pluralized to denote individualized meanings or components, while others may be pluralized to emphasize the quality, condition
or degree. The latter type is specifically called 'intensive plural' (or 'emotional plural' by some scholars). This article discusses the use of the plural of abstract nouns mainly through a corpus-based analysis of the three epistolary novels by Sanluel Richardson who is supposed to have given a remarkable influence on sentimental literature.
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Keywords | 抽象名詞
強意複数
Richardson
sentimentalism
ness
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Publication Title |
岡山大学教育学部研究集録
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Published Date | 2008-06-25
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Volume | volume138
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Issue | issue1
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Publisher | 岡山大学教育学部
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Publisher Alternative | Faculty of Education, Okayama University
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Start Page | 33
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End Page | 43
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ISSN | 0471-4008
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NCID | AN00032875
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Departmental Bulletin Paper
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岡山大学
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Japanese
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Eprints Journal Name | bgeou
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