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Just how wrong is T...
Just how wrong is There seems to be + a plural noun phrase? Prescription vs. attested usage in the area of S-V concord
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Engelska institutionen,Department of English
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- 2007
- 2007
- English.
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In: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 101:1, s. 2-8
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Abstract
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- On the basis of material from the CobuildDirect corpus it is demonstrated that native speakers of English often use "unorthodox" singular concord in sentences with existential there plus the catenative verb seem plus a plural notional subject. A closing comment deals with pedagogical implications for the teaching of English.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- subject-verb concord
- existential there
- catenative verb
- corpus
Publication and Content Type
- vet (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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