The plural of "moose" is ...

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> But these <- bug> object-of-hunt cases would correspond in many
> languages to incorporated objects as in "I'm aardvark-hunting", where
> "aardvark" isn't really singular, plural, inflectable (via object
> markers) or modifiable (except perhaps in "big game hunting") .  The
> object is non-specific, so semantically the question of number
> doesn't really arise.
>

Therefore,

"I'm hunting wabbits"

*could* not be restated as

*"I'm wabbits-hunting"?

Or is that merely *would* not"?

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-Wilson
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