[Corpora-List] BE, HAVE, and DO

[John F. Sowa]

On 2/23/2011 11:22 AM, Helene Huot 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,

Ogden discovered that principle when he designed Basic English.
Following is a brief summary:

    http://ogden.basic-english.org/verbs.html

But more recent evidence from brain scans show that nouns and verbs
tend to be processed in different regions of the brain.  Objects are
usually recognized in the temporal lobe in an area close to the
visual cortex (occipital lobe).  But verbs are processed in the
frontal lobe in an area closer to the motor mechanisms that process
the actions expressed by verbs.

Syntactic transformations that convert a verb to a noun shouldn't
affect the neural areas the recognize the objects or actions.

The following book has a good survey of the neural structures
and associated psycholinguistic evidence:

    MacNeilage, Peter F. (2008) The Origin of Speech,
    Oxford: University Press.

John



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