[Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

[J Washtell]

Sorry to be picky... but in the case of abseiling down the alps, I  
would say that "down" would almost certainly be considered a  
preposition, as opposed to a particle of a phrasal verb.

Is that incorrect?

Justin Washtell
University of Leeds


Quoting Ken Litkowski <ken at clres.com>:

> The UMLS Specialist lexicon can be simply mined for this purpose,
> probably in half an hour. See
> http://lexsrv3.nlm.nih.gov/SPECIALIST/index.html and click on Specialist
> lexicon. The main dictionary file (a text file about 34 MB) will contain
> entries for the general lexicon in addition to specifically medical
> terminology. This dictionary contains very extensive complement patterns
> (about 25,000 for prepositions). If you search for verb entries that
> have the following lines
>
>
>     compl=.*part(down)
>     compl=.*part(up)
>
> you will get a very thorough list. The first alphabetical entry is for
> "abseil" (to descend a rock cliff), i.e., one can "abseil down the
> Alps." This shows how extensive the non-medical dictionary is.
>
>     Ken
>
> Michael Dreyfuss wrote:
>> 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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