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

Find a word

Type in a word or browse through our wordlist.

Find a pattern element

Enter a pattern element (such as to_INF) or take a look at the list of pattern elements.

Pattern query results

Active patterns:

V-ing + VHC_act + for_NP_V-ing

Passive patterns:

NP_V-ing + VHC_pass + for | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

account (A explain) - pay (α)