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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Pattern query results

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + from_NP

Passive patterns:

NP + VHC_pass + from | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

be - be (δ) - beg (α) - borrow (A … things) - borrow (B … ideas) - break (D abandon) - break (E interrupt) - choose - come (A travel) - come (B happen) - come (special use 6) - come (special use 7) - copy (A duplicate) - decline (A standards …) - descend (C family …) - develop (B organism …) - die (A stop living) - double (A become twice as much) - enquire - escape - follow (A come after) - follow (B conclusion …) - form - gain - hear (B … news) - inquire - issue (special use 1) - join (A … group) - judge (A assess) - lack (A be missing) - learn (A acquire a skill / knowledge) - pick (B choose) - quote (A … Shakespeare) - read - reflect (A … light) - remove (special use 1) - rest (A recover) - result (A be caused) - rise (A get up) - rise (C UPWARDS) - rise (special use 5) - rob - separate (A split) - separate (B keep apart) - shelter (B find protection) - split (A separate) - start (E prices …) - start (F JOURNEY) - steal - suffer - survive - tremble - vary (B change) - vary (special use 1) - wake - wake (special use 1) - work (A do work)