Just how wrong is There seems to be + a plural noun phrase? Prescription vs. attested usage in the area of S-V concord

• 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.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

subject-verb concord

existential there

catenative verb

corpus

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

art (ämneskategori)