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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2015-05-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/964