Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ?
A collective noun is typically defined as a noun which, in the singular, involves a plurality of members (e.g. (a) crew). But some of these nouns can also denote members, when they are used as uninflected plurals (e.g. these crew); some of them even license the numeral one (e.g. one crew, meaning on...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Presses Universitaires du Midi
2017-03-01
|
| Series: | Anglophonia |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1028 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|