<div dir="ltr">Stefan Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch have published on this in regard to their work on lexically sensitive constructions: Stefanowitsch and Gries (2003) "Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions" devote a subsection to this construction (sec 3.2.1), and Gries and Stefanowitsch (2004) "Covarying col;exemes in the into-causative" are two that come to mind, esp if you are looking for corpus linguistic work on the construction. <div>
<br></div><div>If you'd like a quick n dirty way to explore this construction in BNC, try StringNet Navigator (<a href="http://nav.stringnet.org">nav.stringnet.org</a>) using 'into verb' as search string (no scare quotes needed). Use 'search options' to set string length at 2 to 4 to get less noise in the list of patterns given. The #2 pattern shown would be a case of the construction: 'be forced into v-ing.' Click on 'forced' in that string to get all the other verbs attested there in passive form and their frequency.Or click on its 'parent link' to get the more abstract: be [verb] into v-ing and see what verbs occupy those slots. Click on examples etc. Navigate around to find the 'active' versions (force [s.o] into v-ing). Interesting to compare the different distribution of the verbs in the active vs passive versions, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Christoph Ruehlemann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisruehlemann@googlemail.com" target="_blank">chrisruehlemann@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>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.)<br><br></div>Cheers<br>Chris<br></div>
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