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 + towards_NP

Passive patterns:

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

count (special use 2) - decline (A standards …) - go (ζ) - lean (C BIAS) - make (C achieve) - tend (B TENDENCY) - work (E progress)