Dénominations d’animés humains et dualité en anglais contemporain

Why can the noun phrase a German only denote a person (and not an object)? To refer to, say, a German desk, the lexeme /German/ takes the form of an adjective, not a noun. In the same way, why can a superior, where superior is a noun, only designate a person, and not, say, a book that is found bette...

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Main Author: Elise Mignot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2009-01-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/12372
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