Abstract
In French, collective nouns (Ncoll), which refer to a plurality of objects or individuals through a singular form, are known to be subject to variable verbal (but also pronominal) agreement, particularly in spoken language. The study presented here analyzes the OFROM corpus to provide a distributional description of an array of Ncoll, selected on the basis of the samples used by Tristram (2014) and Mougeon & Mougeon (2017a), in the variety of French spoken in Switzerland. Specifically, it focuses on the agreement patterns associated with these nouns. The results indicate that Swiss speakers of French tend to closely follow the norm and mostly apply grammatical agreement. A part of the diverging tokens with semantic agreement attested in the data can be explained as agreement attraction by a pluralized nominal complement within the NP, while the results concerning the effect of syntagmatic distance and intervening syntactic boundaries between the Ncoll and the target(s) for agreement turn out to be inconclusive.