Concord with collective nouns in British and American English

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics"e;, language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively r...