[Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

Wed Dec 10 16:48:26 UTC 2008

That's right. The SPECIALIST lexicon does indeed include both
prepositional phrase complements and particles. While we have used
LDOCE, especially early on. But we do not rely on it exclusively nor
have we ever copied LDOCE entries verbatim. We compile the lexicon based
on a growing number of sources as well as the native speaker intuitions
of the lexicon consultants. 

The unit record for "abseil" is:

        {base=abseil

        entry=E0538506

                cat=verb

                variants=reg

                tran=pphr(down,np)

                tran=pphr(from,np)

                tran=pphr(from,np);part(down)

        }

You can also get this information from the LRCMP file. The relevant
lines are:

        E0538506|abseil|verb|tran=pphr(down,np)| 

        E0538506|abseil|verb|tran=pphr(from,np)| 

        E0538506|abseil|verb|tran=pphr(from,np);part(down)| 

Hope this helps. Please feel free to email or call me or Chris Lu
(chris_lu at nlm.nih.gov) with any questions you might have.

                -Allen

Allen C. Browne

Lexical Systems Group

National Library of Medicine

Bethesda Maryland.

Phone: 301 435 3167

e-mail: browne at nlm.nih.gov

From: Demner Fushman, Dina (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:26 AM
To: Browne, Allen (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E]
Subject: FW: [Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

Allen,

I am not sure if you are on this list or want to comment on this. 

Dina

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Litkowski [mailto:ken at clres.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:18 AM
To: J Washtell
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Phrasal Verbs

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> <mailto: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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