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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Linguistics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Linguistics Ser
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of symbols and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Aims and scope of the study -- 1.2. The whys and wherefores -- Why a corpus-based study? -- Why complex collective noun phrases? -- Why diachronically and synchronically? -- 1.3. Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2 Complex collective subjects and verb number agreement in English: State of the art -- 2.1. Complex collective subjects |
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2.1.1. Lexico-semantic traits: Lexical profile and quantifying meaning -- Lexical profile -- Partitives -- Pseudopartitives -- Structural ambiguity: The referential reading -- Quantifying meaning -- 2.1.2. Morphosyntactic characterisation: Headedness and constituency -- Headedness -- Constituency -- 2.2. Verb number agreement with complex collective subjects -- 2.2.1. Comprehensive grammars -- Notional concord -- Proximity concord -- 2.2.2. Syntactically oriented approaches -- 2.2.2.1. Corbett's canonical model -- Canonical and non-canonical agreement -- The 'Agreement Hierarchy' |
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2.2.2.2. Generative Grammar -- From 'Inflection' to 'Agree' -- Accommodating semantic agreement -- 2.2.3. Cognitive Grammar and the symbolic alternative -- 2.2.4. Empirical studies -- Intralinguistic factors I: Formal complexity -- Structural and syntactic complexity: Length and structure -- Qualitative dimension of NP complexity -- Intralinguistic factors II: Morphological (un)markedness and complexity -- Intralinguistic factors III: Lexical factors -- Animacy -- Verb type -- Type of collective noun -- Extralinguistic factors: Textual and regional factors -- 2.3. Concluding remarks -- Notes |
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3 Insights from diachrony: Reconciling form and meaning -- 3.1. Methodology: Corpora and data retrieval -- 3.2. Analysis of the data -- 3.2.1. A number of -- 3.2.2. A group of -- 3.2.3. A majority of -- 3.2.4. A bunch of -- 3.2.5. A couple of -- 3.2.6. A host of -- 3.2.7. A minority of -- 3.2.8. Discussion of the results -- 3.3. Summary and final remarks -- Notes -- 4 Modelling variation in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects in Present-Day English -- 4.1. Methodology: Corpora and data retrieval -- 4.1.1. Corpora -- 4.1.2. Data retrieval -- 4.2. Variables |
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4.2.1. Core defining variables -- (i) Agreement -- (ii) Ncoll: The collective noun -- (iii) N2: The oblique noun -- 4.2.2. Morphosyntactic variables -- (i) Det1: The determiner of Ncoll -- (ii) Premodification of Ncoll -- (iii) Det2: The determiner of 2 -- (iv) Formal variation of N2 -- (v) Type of N2 -- (vi) Structure -- (vii) Number of premodifiers of N2 -- (viii) Number of words preceding N2 -- (ix) Number of postmodifiers of N2 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000281965 |
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1000281965 |
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