Erlangen Valency Patternbank BETA

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

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

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Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + NP_to_INF

Passive patterns:

NP_to_INF + VHC_pass | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

accept (B acknowledge) - afford (A MONEY ETC.) - allow (A permit) - allow (B enable) - believe ( GENERAL) - cause - claim (A state) - demand (A facts …) - demand (B person …) - desire - feel (D have an opinion) - get (special use 33) - get (special use 34) - get (δ) - guess - hate - have (A possess) - have (E be obliged) - intend - know (A INFORMATION) - know (D recognize) - like - love (B like) - need - permit - prefer - propose (B suggest) - recognise (B acknowledge) - recognize (B acknowledge) - report - reveal - state - suppose (A believe) - suppose (B HYPOTHETICAL) - suspect - trust (α) - understand (B know) - want - wish

Lexically specified patterns

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + NP_to_INF (to_INF only passive)

demand (A facts …) - demand (B person …)