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On some uses of singular collective nouns

English Today, 2005
This paper draws attention to some uses of the singular collective nouns congress, council, government, management, parliament, and senate in contemporary English. In particular, it demonstrates how in such uses, the singular collective nouns – like members of the main class of proper nouns – have unique reference, occur without any determiner, take ...
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Is There a Collective Noun for Loners?

New Writing, 2011
This paper will consider the nature and activities of writers' groups in New Zealand against the historical and popular evidence of it having generated a literature of loners. With a small population and a relatively short recorded history, New Zealand now has a remarkably active range of societies and associations, both formally and informally based ...
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Dissociating nouns and verbs in temporal and perisylvian networks: Evidence from neurodegenerative diseases

Cortex, 2021
Valentina Borghesani, Jessica Deleon, Zachary A Miller   +2 more
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Medical collective nouns

Medical Journal of Australia, 2016
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Number agreement with collective nouns as subjects [PDF]

, 2015
This paper has presented the results of our analysis of number agreement with collective noun subjects. Most of the differences in concord with collective nouns analyzed were very small, but some conclusions can be drawn. Generally speaking, there seems to be an obvious preference for singular verbal concord in the English language.
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Collective Nouns

2009
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Collective Nouns

2017
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Agreement with Collective Nouns in English and Romanian: A Silent Noun and Distributional Approach

Revue roumaine de linguistique
The current study looks at agreement with collective nouns with functional heads (such as mulţime ‘multitude’/ multitude) and semi-lexical heads (such as poliţie ‘police’/ police) in English and Romanian. Regarding collective nouns with functional heads, both English and Romanian allow both singular and plural agreement.
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Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology

Neuropsychologia, 2004
Peter Bright
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Neural Correlates of Nouns and Verbs in Early Bilinguals

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008
Alice Hd Chan, Ping Li, Virginia Yip
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