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<span>Sorry for my hasty example. Perhaps the following is a particle.<br>
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"Inspector Kench set up a rope system and <span class="emphasis">abseiled</span>
down to rescue the frightened animal, which, to his horror, then tried
to escape.</span>"<br>
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My main point was that Specialist provides a substantial list. In their
documentation, they indicate that OALD was used for many entries, along
with several other sources. My version of OALD only attests the
prepositional phrase, so they got the particle usage (well-attested in
the Oxford Sentence Dictionary) from somewhere else, despite their
focus on medical terminology.<br>
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Ken<br>
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J Washtell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sorry to be picky... but in the case of abseiling down the alps, I
would say that "down" would almost certainly be considered a
preposition, as opposed to a particle of a phrasal verb.
Is that incorrect?
Justin Washtell
University of Leeds
Quoting Ken Litkowski <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ken@clres.com"><ken@clres.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">The UMLS Specialist lexicon can be simply mined for this purpose,
probably in half an hour. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lexsrv3.nlm.nih.gov/SPECIALIST/index.html">http://lexsrv3.nlm.nih.gov/SPECIALIST/index.html</a> and click on Specialist
lexicon. The main dictionary file (a text file about 34 MB) will contain
entries for the general lexicon in addition to specifically medical
terminology. This dictionary contains very extensive complement patterns
(about 25,000 for prepositions). If you search for verb entries that
have the following lines
compl=.*part(down)
compl=.*part(up)
you will get a very thorough list. The first alphabetical entry is for
"abseil" (to descend a rock cliff), i.e., one can "abseil down the
Alps." This shows how extensive the non-medical dictionary is.
Ken
Michael Dreyfuss wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm a student at the University of Toulouse in France, and I'm looking
for a list of phrasal verbs in English that use "down" or "up" as
their particle, such as "cool down" or "turn up." Does anyone know if
such a list exists?
Thanks,
Michael Dreyfuss
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