Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

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

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