{"product_id":"reconciling-synchrony-diachrony-and-usage-in-verb-number-agreement-with-complex-collective-subjects","title":"Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003cem\u003eWinner of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e (2021)*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers\u003c\/em\u003e (2022)*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and Linguistics*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as \u003ci\u003ea bunch of\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003ea group of\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the \u003ci\u003eCorpus of Historical American English\u003c\/i\u003e (COHA), and the other on the \u003ci\u003eBritish National Corpus\u003c\/i\u003e (BNC) and the \u003ci\u003eCorpus of Contemporary American English\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232399118680,"sku":"9780367417154","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367417154_eb2634cf-4c20-4bfd-9adf-63d87fff7054.jpg?v=1777189553","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reconciling-synchrony-diachrony-and-usage-in-verb-number-agreement-with-complex-collective-subjects","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}