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Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects
Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. urn:nbn:hr:142:273945
Tolj, Vlatka
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Tolj, V. (2015). Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

Tolj, Vlatka. "Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

Tolj, Vlatka. "Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

Tolj, V. (2015). 'Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 29 November 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

Tolj V. Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2015 [cited 2024 November 29] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

V. Tolj, "Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2015. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:273945

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TitleNumber agreement with collective nouns as subjects
Title (croatian)Sročnost po broju glagola i zbirnih imenica u funkciji subjekta
AuthorVlatka Tolj
MentorGabrijela Buljan (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2015-09-16, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper has presented the results of our analysis of number agreement with collective noun subjects. Most of the differences in concord with collective nouns analyzed were very small, but some conclusions can be drawn. Generally speaking, there seems to be an obvious preference for singular verbal concord in the English language. It is also indicated that singular verbal concord is more popular in AmE than in BrE. Plural verb forms with collective nouns are more common in BrE. But the difference between the varieties is not that big. We can also see in this paper that there are no differences between spoken AmE and written AmE. Although we can draw some conclusions about number agreement with the collective nouns from this analysis, we do have to consider the fact that the corpora used here are still too limited to determine with a 100 percent certainty that our conclusions are right. Thankfully, our analysis does seem to agree with the studies cited and drawn on in the paper, so we can say that we are on the right track, but we obviously need more evidence, especially from larger and stylistically stratified corpora, as well as statistical verification of our results for a larger set of collective nouns to arrive at more robust conclusions.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:273945
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti)
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