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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| description | 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 interrogation in the ICE-HK corpus. It is argued that the preference for singular concord serves as a signal that Hong Kong English might be less conservative than British English in converging towards the norm of using singular concord with collective nouns across the globe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-178cad6d30ea499c8b75cd56c99416f42022-12-21T20:06:21ZdeuBern Open PublishingLinguistik Online1615-30142009-01-0137110.13092/lo.37.514Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component)May Lai-Yin WongThis 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 interrogation in the ICE-HK corpus. It is argued that the preference for singular concord serves as a signal that Hong Kong English might be less conservative than British English in converging towards the norm of using singular concord with collective nouns across the globe.https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/514 |
| spellingShingle | May Lai-Yin Wong Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) Linguistik Online |
| title | Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) |
| title_full | Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) |
| title_fullStr | Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) |
| title_short | Concord patterns with collective nouns in Hong Kong English. With illustrative material from the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component) |
| title_sort | concord patterns with collective nouns in hong kong english with illustrative material from the international corpus of english hong kong component |
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