[Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

[Mark Davies]

You might use COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English; 385 million words, 1990-present), TIME Corpus (100m words, US, 1920s-2000s), or our interface to the BNC (see http://corpus.byu.edu for relevant links).

Just use the string:

[vv*] up.[rp*]     (for COCA and TIME)
[vv*] up.[avp*]   (for the BNC)

Notes:

-- Replace "up" with "down" (or any other adverbial particle). You can search all particles at once by omitting "up."
-- You can also see and limit by and compare the frequency in any genre(s)
-- You might want to group by lemma (probably useful for your searches)
-- Set the # HITS to 3000 or so to get all matching strings.
-- Unlike some interfaces, ours give *all* matching strings -- not just those above a certain frequency.

For a recent publication based on data from the BNC:

Gardner, Dee and Mark Davies. (2007) "Pointing Out Frequent Phrasal Verbs: A Corpus-Based Analysis". TESOL Quarterly 41:339-59.

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Mark Davies
Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Michael Dreyfuss
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:07 AM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

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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