Cactuses or Cacti? : A corpus-based study on the use of Latin nominal inflection in American English
As a result of language contact and influence, the English language contains a significant amount of lexical items borrowed from other languages. Whilst the borrowing of inflectional morphology is not very common, English does use several Latin plurals in their original form. However, these plurals...
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Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen
2021
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194188 |