Review of Fernández-Pena, Yolanda. 2020. Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects. London: Routledge.

ISBN: 978-0- 367-41715-4 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367815899

Keywords: verb number agreement, complex collective subjects, contemporary and historical English

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Lotte Sommerer, University of Freiburg

 

 

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Published
2022-11-04
How to Cite
Sommerer, L. (2022). Review of Fernández-Pena, Yolanda. 2020. Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects. London: Routledge. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 10(2), 175-186. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.02.10