Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Hong Kong English. With Illustrative Material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong Component)
This corpus-based study reports on both a quantitative and qualitative account of the use of collective nouns in Hong Kong English, with particular reference to subject-verb agreement/concord patterns. Singular concord was found to be the preferred pattern among thirty-five collective nouns under in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistik Online |
| Online Access: | http://www.linguistik-online.de/37_09/wong.pdf |