Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

ISBN-13: 9780367417154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str.

Yolanda Fernández-Pena

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.