Verb Agreement and Disagreement

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-61

  Crawford, William J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corpus linguistics; discourse function; existential there; register variation; verb agreement; verb concord

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745433392     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424204274001     Document Type: Article

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