Yolanda Fernández-Pena

Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book adopts corpus-driven methodologies in analyzing the wide range of variables underpinning verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000282009
• Artikelnr.: 60674438

Autorenporträt

Yolanda Fernández-Pena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English, French and German at the University of Vigo, Spain, and a member of the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC) research group. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Corpora, Atlantis, RAEL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada and Varieng.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Complex collective subjects and verb number agreement in
English: State of the art 3. Insights from diachrony: Reconciling form and
meaning 4. Modelling variation in verb number agreement with complex
collective subjects in Present-Day English 5. Concluding remarks and
prospects for future research

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1. Introduction 2. Complex collective subjects and verb number agreement in English: State of the art 3. Insights from diachrony: Reconciling form and meaning 4. Modelling variation in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects in Present-Day English 5. Concluding remarks and prospects for future research