[Corpora-List] A small favour

[Adam Kilgarriff]

You can see a summary of how the verb slip behaves in the word sketch for it
at 

http://www.sketchengine.co.uk <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>  

(self-register for free trial, then look at the BNC or -twenty times bigger-
UKWaC).  High-salience subjects are tears, masks, tongues and fingers,
objects are leash arm mooring noose ring ball, then there’s letting things
slip and lots of intransitive slipping
though/under/beneath/over/past/into/off ....

 

I share Ramesh’s view that corpus data is far superior to elicited

 

Adam

 

-----Original Message-----
From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Krishnamurthy, Ramesh
Sent: 07 September 2007 12:34
To: Ulf Magnusson; corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] A small favour

 

Dear Professor Magnusson

 

Please forgive me, but it seems strange to post an elicitation request on
corpora-list.

 

a) Aren’t there hundreds of native-speaker examples in freely available
corpora that you could use?

 

b) Can anyone think of examples of a word “spontaneously”? Usually, we use
language to convey

meanings, and select words that create the meanings we wish to express? We
rarely focus consciously on a word,

with the intention of using it in our next utterance?

 

c) We also do not think about transitivity consciously when producing
meanings?

 

d) How do you accommodate phrasal verbs in your model of transitivity?

 

e) You have accorded intransitive and transitive uses numerical equality in
your request. Is this based

on any observed distribution, or simply by virtue of the fact that some
grammar models see transitivity

as a binary phenomenon?

 

Here are the 40 free examples for SLIP from 

http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

with my comments on transitivity features (apologies for any errors; done
quickly to raise issues rather than for complete accuracy)

 
[... for examples see earlier posting - AK]

 

Best wishes

Ramesh

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Ulf Magnusson
Sent: 06 September 2007 09:10
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] A small favour

 

Dear list members,

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. 

 

To avoid cluttering up the ordinary mail on the list you could use this
address:

 

mag.nusson at bredband.net

 

I will list all the examples I get and post them back to the list for anyone
who might be interested.

 

Many thanks for any help I will get

 

Ulf Magnusson

Emeritus Professor of English

Luleå University of Technology

Sweden

mag.nusson at bredband.net

Fax: +4640233572

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