Corpora: Corpus/Corpora in French?

Jean Veronis Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr
Tue Apr 10 12:31:01 UTC 2001


At 15:11 10/04/2001 +0300, Elin Pard wrote:
>Many articles in French have "corpus" as both the singular and plural form.
>Is "corpora" a plural option also in French?

Not really. It would look quite pedantic. We do not usually use the latin 
forms of the plural and simply say "des index, des corpus, des médias".


Jean Véronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/



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