English non-plural nouns in -s : a survey and corpus-based study

The English suffix -s is usually used to mark third person singular present tense, noun plurals, possessives, and in some adverbs, but it is also used in words like news, linguistics, measles, billiards, belongings, riches, oats, shivers, scissors, etc. In the literature so far, words like these hav...

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Main Author: Cheng, Yonghong
Other Authors: Stahlke, Herbert
Format: Others
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/175508
http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1395455