About Plural Morphology and Game Animals: from Old English to Present-Day English
My focus here will be on those animal names which never (e.g. deer) or occasionally (e.g. herring) take the -s suffix in the plural in Present-Day English. After a detailed presentation of these names (§1), I will try to show (§2) that they form a lexical category in Guiraud’s sense, that is, a non-...
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| Main Author: | Fabienne Toupin |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/964 |
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