Verbal Agreement with Partitive Noun Phrases KU Leuven
© 2016 The Editorial Board of Studia Linguistica This paper provides empirical evidence in favour of Martí Girbau's (2003, 2010) quantifier phrase analysis (QP of N) of the partitive construction, which is based on the analysis of verbal agreement in a large data set from the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). The competing binominal N of NP analysis, advocated by some, predicts that there is number ...