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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Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + on + NP + as_NP

Passive patterns:

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

sign (idiomatic phrasal verb) - take (idiomatic phrasal verb)