Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects av Yolanda Fernandez-Pena

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<p><b>*<em>Winner of </em><em>AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics</em> (2021)*</b></p><p><b><em>*Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers</em> (2022)*</b></p><p><b>*Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category ''English Language and Linguistics*</b></p><p>This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.</p><p>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 <i>of</i>-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as <i>a bunch of</i> or <i>a group of</i>. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the <i>Corpus of Historical American English</i> (COHA), and the o