영어 가산명사와 불가산명사에 관한 소고

• 영문명: A Thought on the Notion of Countability
• 발행기관: 서울여자대학교 인문과학연구소
• 저자명: 정용길(Yongkil Jeong)
• 간행물 정보: 『인문논총』17, 27~39쪽, 전체 13쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

This article deals with the notion of countability for nouns in English. Given that nouns refer to entities in reality, it is not too much to say that grammatical properties of nouns stem from the properties of the entities referred to by those nouns. In this article, however, we will show that some properties of the real entities referred to by nouns are filtered out by what we may call 'psychological filters', and therefore do not map into the internal grammar of the speaker. In doing so, we will also show that in many cases grammatical features of nouns reflect how the speaker view the physical entities referred to by the nouns rather than the properties of the entities themselves.

키워드

countability count noun uncount noun psychological filter formal/informal English