Yolanda Fernández-Pena – författare

*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)**Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)**Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and Linguistics*This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change.This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)**Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)**Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and Linguistics*This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change.This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

This collection highlights studies applying systemic functional (SFL) approaches to diverse datasets, collectively offering insights into the construal of meaning through textual and multimodal communication.Across the thirteen chapters of this volume, contributors explore how meaning is construed through language, text and multimodal communication in a wide range of contexts, including education, scientific writing, political discourse, social media, audiovisual communication, coding, online lectures and film reviews. The book combines studies grounded in the Hallidayan tradition with chapters that extend systemic functional perspectives through dialogue with multimodality, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis and other complementary frameworks. Its distinctive contribution lies in showing the versatility of SFL as a social-semiotic approach capable of illuminating both traditional textual practices and emerging forms of digital and multimodal interaction. Readers will benefit from the book’s broad methodological range, international scope and rich empirical coverage, gaining insight into how language and other semiotic resources shape, and are shaped by, social, cultural, educational and technological contexts.The volume will be of interest to researchers, advanced students and educators working in systemic functional grammar, multimodality, discourse analysis, applied linguistics and language teaching and learning.