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 + up + for_NP

Passive patterns:

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

build (idiomatic phrasal verb) - cover (idiomatic phrasal verb) - make (idiomatic phrasal verb) - save (idiomatic phrasal verb) - sign (idiomatic phrasal verb) - speak (idiomatic phrasal verb) - stand (idiomatic phrasal verb) - stick (idiomatic phrasal verb) - wait (idiomatic phrasal verb)