[Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

[Ken Litkowski]

Sorry for my hasty example. Perhaps the following is a particle.

"Inspector Kench set up a rope system and abseiled down to rescue the 
frightened animal, which, to his horror, then tried to escape."

My main point was that Specialist provides a substantial list. In their 
documentation, they indicate that OALD was used for many entries, along 
with several other sources. My version of OALD only attests the 
prepositional phrase, so they got the particle usage (well-attested in 
the Oxford Sentence Dictionary) from somewhere else, despite their focus 
on medical terminology.

    Ken

J Washtell wrote:
> 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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