Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Complex collective subjects and verb number agreement in English: State of the art 3. Insights from diachrony: Reconciling form and meaning 4. Modelling variation in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects in Present-Day English 5. Concluding remarks and prospects for future research

About the Author

Yolanda Fernández-Pena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English, French and German at the University of Vigo, Spain, and a member of the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC) research group. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Corpora, Atlantis, RAEL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada and Varieng.