[Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

[Tobias Wunner]

Nice interface. I was only aware of Sketchengine (http://sketchengine.co.uk)
using the Corpus Query Language (CQL).

Does the COCA interface also support repetitive matches - for example a verb
folowed by 1, 2, 3  or more nouns like this:

        "play [n*]{1,3}" or

        "the [n*]{1,}" ?

Regards,
Tobias Wunner

2008/12/9 Mark Davies <Mark_Davies at byu.edu>

> 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.
>
> ============================================
> Mark Davies
> Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
> Brigham Young University
> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
> Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
>
> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
> ============================================
> 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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