[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
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu
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