[Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing

Marcus Callies callies at uni-bremen.de
Wed Nov 20 11:56:12 UTC 2013


Dear Christoph,

you may find these references helpful:

Rudanko, J. (2006a), "Emergent alternation in complement selection:  
The spread of the transitive into -ing construction in British and  
American English", Journal of English Linguistics 34, 312-331.

Wulff, S., A. Stefanowitsch, & S. Th. Gries (2007), “Brutal Brits and  
persuasive Americans: variety-specific meaning construction in the  
into-causative”, in Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg  
& Peter Siemund (eds.), Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam:  
Benjamins, 265-281.



Besten Gruß
Marcus Callies


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Zitat von Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>:

> Chris,
>
> Not sure about academic papers, but here are the verbs that do it most in
> the 113,436 hits for the pattern in enTenTen12
>
> Adam
>
> 4146 trick
> 3521 talk
> 2784 fool
> 1355 put
> 1154 delude
> 944 mislead
> 907 scare
> 861 deceive
> 577 bring
> 400 force
> 387 pressure
> 300 lure
> 268 manipulate
> 248 push
> 248 convert
> 213 turn
> 190 lead
> 189 brainwash
> 170 con
> 167 get
> 134 dupe
> 101 confuse
> 100 entice
> 99 guide
> 98 call
> 90 coerce
> 84 do
> 80 go
> 69 seduce
> 67 integrate
> 60 speak
> 60 lull
> 56 tempt
> 49 throw
> 47 provide
> 46 coax
> 41 kid
> 41 intimidate
> 38 invest
> 37 cross
> 34 drop
> 33 rush
> 29 stimulate
> 26 persuade
> 25 frighten
> 23 take
> 22 plunge
> 22 incorporate
> 19 make
> 19 lock
> 19 convince
> 18 pour
> 18 hoodwink
> 18 badger
> 17 shame
> 17 motivate
> 15 tease
> 15 regard
> 15 breathe
> 13 draw
> 12 dream
> 11 move
> 10 sucker
> 10 panic
> 10 harass
>
>
>
>
> On 20 November 2013 10:42, Christoph Ruehlemann <
> chrisruehlemann at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm interested in the [V Object into V-ing] construction, as in *You
>> bullied me into becoming yur girlfriend* (BNC: HGM 3178). Is anybody aware
>> of ongoing research or published papers into this? (I faintly remember
>> seeing a paper read at one of the ICAME conferences, but cannot remember
>> which one.)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chris
>>
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