The American National Corpus

[Grogie]

I thought everyone might want to know about the American National Corpus. The address is www.americannationalcorpus.org. The website includes a link to the British National Corpus.

[Brazilian dude]

I like corpus, especially if they are females'.

Brazilian dude

[gailr]

[Stargzer]

:shock:

Depends upon how full of corp they are . . . but wait a minute! Faith and Begorra! Look what falls out o' the corp! Sweet Mother Machree, how soon we forget!

Irish Proverb: Don't throw shamrocks; throw the real things!

[Stargzer]

I like corpus, especially if they are females'.

Brazilian dude

My turn to be pedantic. According to my printed dictionary, shouldn't that be corpora? (4th Declension Nominative (or Accusative, as the object of like) Plural?)

[Brazilian dude]

But I didn't want plural, I would have used it if I had wanted to.

Don't touch me.

Brazilian dude

[Brazilian dude]

And corpus is a third declension noun, genitive singular in is: corporis. The fourth declension has genitive in -us, such as lacus, lacus.

Brazilian dude

[Brazilian dude]

And don't mess with me. I'm pugnacious.

Brazilian dude

[KatyBr]

But I didn't want plural, I would have used it if I had wanted to.

Don't touch me.

Brazilian dude

but females' is plural possessive, eh?

Kt
btw be careful of the pugnacious stuff around the chartreuse puppy.

[Brazilian dude]

but females' is plural possessive, eh?

Yes, it is, but I was referring to corpus.

Brazilian dude

[Stargzer]

but females' is plural possessive, eh?

Yes, it is, but I was referring to corpus.

Brazilian dude

Ah, but the rest of the sentence was in the plural:

I like corpus, especially if they are females'.

Brazilian dude

Shouldn't it have then been:

I like [a] corpus, especially if it is a female's.

[Stargzer]

And corpus is a third declension noun, genitive singular in is: corporis. The fourth declension has genitive in -us, such as lacus, lacus.

Brazilian dude

I'll have to check the dictionary when I get home. It had corpus, corporis, in the dictionary entry. Back in the declension tables, it had opus, operis in 4th declension as I recall with opera for the Nom and Acc plurals.

[Flaminius]

Opus and corpus are both 3rd declension neuter nouns. Plural nominatives and accusatives are opera and corpora.

[Brazilian dude]

Shouldn't it have then been:

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I like [a] corpus, especially if it is a female's.

Maybe, but that wouldn't have had the same effect to Romance language speakers, I think, who wouldn't think immediately of corpo, cuerpo, corp, corps, etc.

Brazilian dude