hurrial
Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:09 am Post subject: Number of the Verbal Nouns |
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Hi,
I could not decide exactly what to mark verbal nouns like the group "dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly" ? Should it be singular or singular tantum or something else ?
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martins Site Admin
Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 1481 Location: Geneva, Switzerland
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject: RES: Number of the Verbal Nouns |
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This depends largely on the working language. In case of English, as there is no “dismantlings”, “dismantlements” and “dissassemblies” (i.e., the form in plural), the lemmas “dismantling”, “dismantlement” and “disassembly” should be marked as singulare tantum. In French, however, the form “démontage”, corresponding to those English words, may have a plural form (“démontages”), which makes the lemma a singular.
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