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...

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Main Author: Laure Gardelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2017-03-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1028
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