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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Pattern query results

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + V-ing + up
SCU + VHC_act + up + V-ing

Passive patterns:

V-ing + VHC_pass + up | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

give (idiomatic phrasal verb) - take (idiomatic phrasal verb)