32.2518, FYI: Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

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Subject: 32.2518, FYI: Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 07:14:41
From: Yolanda Fernández-Pena [yolanda.fernandez at uvigo.es]
Subject: Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

 
Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share information on the volume 'Reconciling Synchrony,
Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective
Subjects', published within the Routledge Studies in Linguistics series.

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.

Further information:
https://www.routledge.com/Reconciling-synchrony-diachrony-and-usage-in-verb-nu
mber-agreement-with/Fernandez-Pena/p/book/9780367417154

With best wishes,
Yolanda Fernández-Pena
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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