[Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing

[David Wible]

Stefan Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch have published on this in regard to
their work on lexically sensitive constructions: Stefanowitsch and Gries
(2003) "Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and
constructions" devote a subsection to this construction (sec 3.2.1), and
Gries and Stefanowitsch (2004) "Covarying col;exemes in the into-causative"
are two that come to mind, esp if you are looking for corpus linguistic
work on the construction.

If you'd like a quick n dirty way to explore this construction in BNC, try
StringNet Navigator (nav.stringnet.org) using  'into verb' as search string
(no scare quotes needed). Use 'search options' to set string length at 2 to
4 to get less noise in the list of patterns given. The #2 pattern shown
would be a case of the construction: 'be forced into v-ing.' Click on
'forced' in that string to get all the other verbs attested there in
passive form and their frequency.Or click on its 'parent link' to get the
more abstract: be [verb] into v-ing and see what verbs occupy those slots.
Click on examples etc. Navigate around to find the 'active' versions (force
[s.o] into v-ing). Interesting to compare the different distribution of the
verbs in the active vs passive versions, etc.

Best,
David


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Christoph Ruehlemann <
chrisruehlemann at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in the [V Object into V-ing] construction, as in *You
> bullied me into becoming yur girlfriend* (BNC: HGM 3178). Is anybody aware
> of ongoing research or published papers into this? (I faintly remember
> seeing a paper read at one of the ICAME conferences, but cannot remember
> which one.)
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
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