Re: Meyadhew

Danny Wier  <dawier@...> 2003.01.30. 19:49:45 -6h-kor írta:

> From: "Christopher Wright" <faceloran@...>
>
> > Nik cuendalves:
> > >Mau Rauszer wrote:
> > >> C5: collective or plural-by-meaning nouns
> > >What does the fifth category mean?
> >
> > A coven (as of witches), an order (as of wizards), a company, a covey, a
> > gaggle, etc. They're grammatically singular and semantically (is that the
> > right word?) plural. Thus, they would be in C5. At least, that's what it
> > would seem to mean, but I'm not Mau.
>
> How would that be related to, say, the use of Arabic broken plurals loaned
> into Farsi? Those are cases of plurals functioning as singulars, like
> collectives, but actually an inflection of a singular noun rather than a
> different word.
No, they are different words, not the plurals of others, though they sometimes only differ from
another word of non-collective meaning by class. But in most cases, they
have no related words in other class.

-- Mau