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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Patterns:

adjective + V-ing

busy (A) - careful - conspicuous - content - early - engaged (A) - happy - impressive - late (A) - uneasy - unhappy - useless (A) - worth