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 + something/a_lot/etc. + about_wh_CL

Passive patterns:

something/a_lot/etc. + VHC_pass + about_wh_CL | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

learn (A acquire a skill / knowledge) - learn (B discover) - say - say (special use 4)