[Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Helene, Chris,

I was just looking at 'make' to test out some new functionality for
comparing the same word in different text types: here's a comparison of
objects of 'make' in business English (green) vs film transcripts (red)
(white=salient in both)

 *object* *8601* *8149* *5.7* *5.7*love
0<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w0>
222<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482417>0.0
5.7 mistake 48<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482305>
430<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482305>3.7
6.8 call 37<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482124>
170<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482124>3.2
5.4 sense 106<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1481672>
297<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1481672>4.6
6.1 difference 129<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1481907>
172<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1481907>5.0
5.4 decision 446<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482013>
139<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482013>6.6
4.9 contribution
154<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482395>
8<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482395>5.3
1.0 investment 174<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1483249>
5<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1483249>5.3
0.2 recommendation
172<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1482512>
0<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w0>5.5
0.0 payment 474<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1484162>
10<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/view?corpname=preloaded/model_corpus;q=w1484162>6.9
1.3


(To explore further: URL for this search is
http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/wsdiff?diff_by=subcorpus&lemma=make&lpos=-v&subcorp1=business&subcorp2=speech&separate_blocks=0&minfreq=auto&maxcommon=10&maxexclusive=10

<http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/preloaded_corpus/model_corpus/ske/wsdiff?diff_by=subcorpus&lemma=make&lpos=-v&subcorp1=business&subcorp2=speech&separate_blocks=0&minfreq=auto&maxcommon=10&maxexclusive=10>You'll
need to log in, free trial registration at
http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/register/.  Also NB this is only the beta
version so is not yet fully debugged.)

Adam


On 23 February 2011 16:22, Helene Huot <helene.huot at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>  There is a paper by *G. Gilquin* (Louvain, Belgium) & *Å. Viberg*(Uppsala, Sweden) :
> "How to make do with one verb: a corpus-based contrastive study of *do*and
> *make"*
> published in *Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee, *2009, Vol.
> XIV-1, pp. 67-82,
>
> Abstract available on http://www.rfla-journal.org
> Full text (pay-per-view) on Internet Cairn portal (www.<http://www.cairn.info/>
> *cairn* .*info* <http://www.cairn.info/>)
>
> Best
> HH
>
>
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