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

Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects
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Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781000282009
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Book Synopsis Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects by : Yolanda Fernández-Pena

Download or read book Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects written by Yolanda Fernández-Pena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change. This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.


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