Abstract
AbstractThis paper reports the results of a quantitative contrastive study of English and German in the area of syntactic vs. semantic concord - the agreement of number of subject and verb if the subject is semantically plural but syntactically singular. Based on English and German newspaper corpora, I look at constructions with quantifying nouns of the form [a number/bunch/heap of N
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