Publication: Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English?
Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English?
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Hundt, M. (2018). Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English? In A. Ho-Cheong Leung & W. van der Wurff (Eds.), The Noun Phrase in English. Past and present (No. 246; Issue 246, pp. 113–142). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.246.05hun
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In English, singular institutional nouns like church or hospital are variably used with or without a definite article following verb-preposition collocations like go to and be at. British English has been reported to prefer the bare NP use whereas American English allegedly tends towards the variant with the definite article. Corpus data from the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English are used to test this hypothesis. In addition to regional variation, language-internal factors (choice and form of head
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Hundt, M. (2018). Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English? In A. Ho-Cheong Leung & W. van der Wurff (Eds.), The Noun Phrase in English. Past and present (No. 246; Issue 246, pp. 113–142). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.246.05hun