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Peer reviewedMeechan, Marjory; Foley, Michele – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using variationist methodology, this study analyzed natural speech data from 31 speakers of standard Canadian English and found an overwhelming preference for singular agreement in existentials. Contrary to predictions, this was not linked to a determiner-based structural distinction but rather to the form of the copula and the speaker's level of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Variation
