THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOUN CRYPTOTYPES IN ENGLISH

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOUN CRYPTOTYPES IN ENGLISH

Author:  O. O. Boriskina

Abstract: 
The paper focuses on the cryptotype recognition procedure. Cryptotype is the principle of distribution of nouns among classes in accordance with a certain semantic feature and with reference to the typological principle of contrastive grammar, evidentially revealed in syntax, particularly in classifying collostructions of the noun class.

Keywords:  linguistic categorization, cryptotypes of nouns, classifiers, prototypes