[Corpora-List] corpus of middles and/of TOUGH-constructions

[Hiroaki SATO]

Dear Jean-Charles.

On 2007/02/14, at 1:12, J-C Khalifa wrote:

> an existing corpus of middles in English (i.e. This shirt washes  
> easily) and / or (for of course both seem to be related) of a  
> corpus of TOUGH-constructions

You might be interested in the Difficulty frame of FrameNet:
http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/fn2_13/helpF/Difficulty.html

Go to the search menu:
http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/fn2_13/menu/Difficulty.html

Select "VPto" in Phrase_Type and "Activity" in Frame_Elements, press  
[Search], and you will get something like this:

http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/fn2_13/getSato.pl? 
Action=Search&pos=xxxx&sort=xxxx&pt=VPto&gf=xxxx&sentag=xxxx&limit=400&h 
eadX=&headN=&frame=Difficulty&suppv=xxxx&lemma2=xxxx&fe=Activity

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Hiroaki SATO, Senshu Univ.