Agreement with Collective Nouns in New Zealand English

Abstract

This paper's aim is to study the concord with collective nouns, in particular team names and the noun team, across different classes of New Zealand society. The results show that plural concord is always used with plural team names, while singular concord, with singular team names, is used slightly more often in lower classes than in higher classes of the society. There seems to be an on-going shift towards singular concord, which would explain what is happening in British English (BrE).

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