TY - JOUR N2 - The paper investigates the issue of motivation of a subcategory of nouns called by Quirk et al. (1985: 303) and Huddleston & Pullum (2002: 345), respectively, unmarked plural nouns and uninflected plural-only nouns. These are nouns with untypical, from the perspective of the majority of English nouns, properties: their form, despite the plural designation, is singular. Adopting the general cognitive perspective on motivation in language (e.g. Lakoff 1987; Heine 1997; Radden, Panther 2004; Gibbs 2005; Panther, Radden 2011, etc.), the paper analyses whether such irregular properties of uninflected plural-only nouns can be motivated by one of the factors shaping visual experience – Gestalt principles of perception (e.g. Koffka 1936; Pomerantz 1981; Rock & Palmer S. 1990; Palmer S. 1999). L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/124220/PDF/2022-LINS-02-Drozdz.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/124220 PY - 2022 EP - 42 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2022.141215 KW - cognitive linguistics KW - Gestalt principles KW - motivation KW - uninflected plural- only nouns A1 - Drożdż, Grzegorz PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 43 DA - 2022.09.05 T1 - Gestalt principles of perception as a factor motivating the irregular properties of uninflected plural-only nouns SP - 25 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/124220 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -