Re: Corpora: Corpus/Corpora in French?

From: Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@newsup.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Tue Apr 10 2001 - 14:31:01 MET DST

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    At 15:11 10/04/2001 +0300, Elin Pard wrote:
    >Many articles in French have "corpus" as both the singular and plural form.
    >Is "corpora" a plural option also in French?

    Not really. It would look quite pedantic. We do not usually use the latin
    forms of the plural and simply say "des index, des corpus, des médias".

    Jean Véronis
    http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/

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