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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can see a sum</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>ma</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>ry of how the verb <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>slip</span></i> behaves in the word sketch for it at </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>(self-register for free trial, then look at
the BNC or -twenty times bigger- UKWaC). High-salience subjects are <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>tears, </span></i></span></font><i><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-style:italic'>ma</span></font></i><i><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-style:italic'>sks, tongues </span></font></i><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>and<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> fingers</span></i>, objects are <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>leash arm mooring noose ring ball</span></i>, then
there’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>letting things slip </span></i>and
lots of intransitive <i><span style='font-style:italic'>slipping
though/under/beneath/over/past/into/off ....</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I share Ramesh’s view that corpus
data is far superior to elicited</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Adam</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> corpora-bounces@uib.no
[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Krishnamurthy,
Ramesh<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>07
September 2007</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>12:34</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Ulf Magnusson; corpora@uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List] A
small favour</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dear Professor Magnusson</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Please forgive me, but it seems strange to post an <u>elicitation</u>
request on <u>corpora</u>-list.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>a) Aren’t there hundreds of native-speaker examples in freely
available corpora that you could use?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>b) Can anyone think of examples of a word
“spontaneously”? Usually, we use language to convey</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>meanings, and select words that create the meanings we wish to
express? We rarely focus consciously on a word,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>with the intention of using it in our next utterance?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>c) We also do not think about transitivity consciously when
producing meanings?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>d) How do you accommodate phrasal verbs in your model of
transitivity?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>e) You have accorded intransitive and transitive uses numerical
equality in your request. Is this based</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>on any observed distribution, or simply by virtue of the fact that
some grammar models see transitivity</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>as a binary phenomenon?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Here are the 40 free examples for SLIP from </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><a href="http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx">http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>with my comments on transitivity features (apologies for any
errors; done quickly to raise issues rather than for complete accuracy)</span></font></p>
<pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>[... for examples see earlier posting - AK]</span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best wishes</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Ramesh</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ulf Magnusson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>06
September 2007</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>09:10</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List] A small
favour</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear list members,</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’m doing a
survey of the English verb SLIP in various contexts. Might I bother some of you
who are native speakers of English to just write down six sentences that you
come to think of spontaneously, three of them with the intransitive use and
three with the transitive use of the verb. </span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To avoid
cluttering up the ordinary mail on the list you could use this address:</span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:mag.nusson@bredband.net">mag.nusson@bredband.net</a></span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I will list all
the examples I get and post them back to the list for anyone who might be
interested.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Many thanks for
any help I will get</span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span class=emailstyle19><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ulf Magnusson</span></font></span></p>
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