Erlangen Valency Patternbank BETA

— a corpus-based research tool for work on valency and argument structure constructions

List patterns

• active verb patterns
• passive verb patterns
• adjective patterns
• noun patterns

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Patterns:

[it] + adjective + CL

all right - alright - certain (A) - clear (A) - convenient - essential - fortunate - funny (A) - good - great - heartbroken - imperative - important - inconceivable - inevitable - likely - logical - lucky - natural - nice - normal - obvious - odd - possible - probable - remarkable - strange - surprising - true (A) - unfortunate - unlikely - untrue (A) - vital