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Schmid's study is concerned with a class of abstract nouns and their linguistic environments. Among the most typical and frequent examples are the words case, chance, fact, idea, news, point, problem, position, reason, report, situation, thing , words called "shell nouns" that Schmid arranges into the following classes: factual ( fact, thing ), linguistic ( news, message ), mental ( idea, notion ), modal ( possibility, permission ), eventive ( act, attempt ), and circumstantial ( situation, context ). These nouns are classified as "shell" not because they are immutably shell-like but because they have the potential for being used as conceptual shells for complex, proposition-like pieces of information. In this dissertation-like study, Schmid attempts to lend some specificity to one of the vaguer classes of English words by exploring the uses and functions of some 670 examples. No information on the author is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
