1st Edition
Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects
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
Biography
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.
"[Fernández-Pena's] contribution shows that the microscopic examination of a large number of possibly-interacting constraints at work in a very circumscribed domain may actually cast light on fundamental aspects of the general functioning of grammar...this is a very fine piece of scholarly work..." - Carlos Acuña Fariña, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, NEXUS
"Fernández-Pena’s monograph on verb agreement with complex collective nouns is a welcome contribution to English linguistics. It presents new findings from a niche that has previously been overlooked...The findings will certainly inspire future studies in related fields." - Magnus Levin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
"This book is an essential read for anyone interested in English binominals and agreement patterns. More generally, it will be of interest to students and researchers working in the field of language variation and change, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language." - Lotte Sommerer, University of Freiburg, Germany
