Analysis of Russian collective nouns in the aspect of category theory

the relevance of the research lies in the fact that in the process of cognition of the world, a person through experience, comparison and generalization forms categories and concepts for ordering complex and multifaceted phenomena, which leads to the emergence of collective nouns. The research goal is to identify the features of collective nouns in the aspect of the theory of categories. The research objectives are to examine the historical evolution of collective noun research using cognitive-linguistic theories such as categorization theory and protocategory theory, to analyze collective nouns in Russian, and to provide their author's classification, and to examine the differences between collective nouns and the generalized meaning of ordinary nouns. The methodology of the research is based on a comparative linguistic approach and includes general scientific methods (formal logical method, comparison, systematization, analysis, synthesis), as well as a number of special methods: historiographical analysis of the scientific discourse of the topic under study; comparative linguistic analysis, part-of-speech analysis. During the empirical study the following results were obtained: in modern scientific discourse, there is a need to identify the reasons for the existence of collective nouns as an independent category in the language.

collective noun, classification, generalized meaning of a common noun, categorization, prototypical theory of categorization, cognitive linguistics