authorship

«authorship» in Mova's school dictionary: The fact of being the person who wrote a book, article… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (authorship, usually no plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) The fact of being the person who wrote a book, article, song or other piece of work. tree →

2) The question of who wrote something, when it is not certain. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English and history lessons it appears when we ask who wrote a text, and in discussions about copying and giving credit. It tells the reader who made a piece of writing. Common phrases: "the authorship of", "claim authorship", "disputed authorship", "joint authorship".

examples

• The authorship of the old poem is unknown. tree →
• Nobody is sure about the authorship of some fairy tales. tree →
• The two friends shared authorship of the comic. tree →
• You must not claim authorship of work you copied. tree →
• Experts argued about the authorship of the letter. tree →
• Putting your name on a project shows your authorship. tree →
• Paul Lacroix, in his fine edition of 1886, goes as far as to attribute the entire authorship of the prose tales to Perrault's son. tree →

note

Usually uncountable: "authorship", not "an authorship". It comes from "author" plus "-ship" (like friendship). Copying someone's work and saying it is yours is called plagiarism and is cheating.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «authorship» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.