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Number Agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to Agree Collectively

Abstract

British andAmerican speakers exhibit different verb number agreement patterns when sentence subjects have collective headnouns. From linguistic andpsycholinguistic accounts of how agreement is implemented, three alternative hypotheses can be derived to explain these differences. The hypotheses involve variations in the representation of notional number, disparities in how notional andgrammatical number are used, and inequalities in the …

Authors

Bock K; Butterfield S; Cutler A; Cutting JC; Eberhard KM; Humphreys KR

Journal

Language, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 64–113

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication Date

March 2006

DOI

10.1353/lan.2006.0011

ISSN

0097-8507