Corpora: Re: 'V-ing' in the BNC

[Christopher Tribble]

Dear Naomi - I hoped my earlier posting had scotched the notion that "Using
WordSmith and its wild card is of course not possible for the BNC" ....  It
is!

Bestest

Chris Tribble

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]On
> Behalf Of Naomi Hallan
> Sent: 22 February 2000 14:31
> To: corpora at hd.uib.no
> Subject: Corpora: Re: 'V-ing' in the BNC
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> As I understand it, you can't search for a POS tag in BNC (using
> SARA, that
> is) unless you choose a lexical word, which means that apart from the
> auxiliaries in Stefan's list, yes, you have to search for each
> verb in turn.
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> Perhaps you can do a pattern query for a form of 'be' followed by 0 to
> (say) 3 words, followed by any number of characters and -ing.
> I'm not in a
> place where I can try it as I write, but maybe  someone else can jump in
> here?
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> Using WordSmith and its wild card is of course nor possible for the BNC
> texts, but if you've got other material it works fine, and the "pattern"
> I've described above will find progressive forms including intervening
> adverbs. Unfortunately the future use of present progressive seems to be
> rather rare in written texts.
>
> Hope this helps -- Naomi
>
> Naomi Hallan,
> Project: 'Learner Behaviour in the InternetGrammar', Englische
> Sprachwissenschaft, TU Chemnitz,
> Reichenhainerstr. 39, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany.  mail:
> naomi.hallan at phil.tu-chemnitz.de
> 145 route de Luxembourg, L-7374 Helmdange, Luxembourg. mail:
> naomi.hallan at ci.educ.lu
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