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 + of_V-ing

Passive patterns:

V-ing + VHC_pass + of | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

admit (C be resolved) - approve (A think good) - come (B happen) - come (special use 12) - complain - conceive - consist (A involve) - consist (B be made up of) - die (A stop living) - dream - dream (special use 1) - dream (special use 2) - hear (B … news) - read - speak (D TOPIC) - speak (special use 9) - talk (B TOPIC) - talk (C CONVERSATION) - talk (special use 5) - talk (special use 6) - tell (A INFORMATION) - think (A THOUGHT) - think (B consider) - warn