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Yolanda Fernández-Pena, Reconciling synchrony, diachrony and usage in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp xv + 226. ISBN 9780367417154.

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Yolanda Fernández-Pena, Reconciling synchrony, diachrony and usage in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp xv + 226. ISBN 9780367417154.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

Magnus Levin
Magnus Levin*
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Linnaeus University
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Linnaeus University 351 95 Växjö Sweden magnus.levin@lnu.se
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 917 - 922
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