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 + to_NP + that_CL

Passive patterns:

NP + VHC_pass + to + that_CL | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow or green
it + VHC_pass + to_NP + that_CL | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in green or blue
that_CL + VHC_pass + to_NP | (+ by_phrase)

admit (A confess) - announce - comment - complain - conclude (B think) - confirm - declare - deny (A … truth) - explain - indicate (A show) - insist - joke - mention - pray - pretend - prove (A … innocence) - recommend - remark - reveal - say - shout - signal (A send signal) - signal (B indicate) - state - suggest (A propose) - suggest (B claim) - swear ( … oath) - trust (β) - write