Collective Nouns for Animals in Groups. A Contrastive Analysis of English and German

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Contrastive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: This paper contrasts German and English collective nouns for animals in groups. It does so by analysing the nouns according to their sense relations. Are crows really murder...