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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#m1)

2) The question of who wrote something, when it is not certain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x1)
- Nobody is sure about the authorship of some fairy tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x2)
- The two friends shared authorship of the comic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x3)
- You must not claim authorship of work you copied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x4)
- Experts argued about the authorship of the letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x5)
- Putting your name on a project shows your authorship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/authorship/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.