[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 23 14:29:04 UTC 2005


Granting the availability of mensch as a gender-neutral term,
am I wrong in thinking that, in the indefinite usage, mann and
leute are a singular/plural pair? I'm thing of usages like:

	Was mann sagt ...  "What a person/one says..."
	Was leute sagen .. "What people say..."


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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
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