[Corpora-List] looking for corpus of middles

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Jean-Charles,

all that your student needs is a large corpus of English, ideally
POS-tagged and in a corpus system that supports complex queries (of
which ours is one of several directly available over the web).  Then
they can write syntactic queries to find a set of instances of the
constructions they are interested in.  This is much better than
starting from somebody else's dataset as that inevitably imports the
other person's prejudices and more-or-less arbitrary choices.

Adam


On 19/12/2009, J-C Khalifa <jean.charles.khalifa at univ-poitiers.fr> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> A PhD student of mine, working on syntactic & semantic connections
> between TOUGH-constructions and middle constructions (This shirt
> washes easily / this shirt is easy to wash) is desperately seeking a
> substantial corpus for middles, not necessarily tagged, but
> preferably including some right and left context. Could anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance, and merry Xmas to all of you!
>
> Jean-Charles Khalifa
> Senior lecturer in Linguistics
> University of Poitiers (France)


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