[Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing

Wed Nov 20 12:58:20 UTC 2013

Nice list, Adam.  I notice that most of these verbs involve inducement to
behave in a particular way, whether by trickery, force, or persuasion.

This doesn't seem to correspond to any of Levin's
classes<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/levin.verbs>,
but some of her other classes such as 02.13.4 overlap with it, and those
classes even provide some new candidates.  E.g., looking at 02.13.4, I
think I could easily use soothe, surprise, startle, provoke, enrage ... in
this construction (and a quick web search seems to bear me out).

Most of the other verbs on your list seem to involve physical transfer
(put, bring, throw, drop, plunge, pour, ...).  But I suspect that those are
not actually instances of the construction in question, but rather come
from spurious examples like "drop it into boiling [water]," where "into" is
a spatial preposition and "boiling" is an adjectival participle.  A few of
the verbs could plausibly be used in both constructions, such as "guide."

It's tempting to use a parsed corpus such as Annotated Gigaword to
distinguish the two constructions.  However, it's probably safer just to
filter out cases where the -ing word is followed by a noun.  These cases
could either be omitted from your analysis or analyzed by hand, but they
are likely to confuse an automatic parser.  Indeed, without context, "coax
him into boiling water" is ambiguous even to a human.

(Warning: "Followed by a noun" is not a perfect pattern, e.g., it won't
catch "drop it into boiling and sulfurous water."  You could play with the
pattern: the question is whether "boiling" could plausibly be the first
word of an NP rather than a VP.  I haven't looked at the data myself.
Clever use of a probabilistic parser could identify cases that
unambiguously use one or the other construction, versus doubtful cases, but
unfortunately, pre-parsed corpora generally only offer a single parse per
sentence.)

-cheers, jason

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Not sure about academic papers, but here are the verbs that do it most in
> the 113,436 hits for the pattern in enTenTen12
>
> Adam
>
> 4146 trick
> 3521 talk
> 2784 fool
> 1355 put
> 1154 delude
> 944 mislead
> 907 scare
> 861 deceive
> 577 bring
> 400 force
> 387 pressure
> 300 lure
> 268 manipulate
> 248 push
> 248 convert
> 213 turn
> 190 lead
> 189 brainwash
> 170 con
> 167 get
> 134 dupe
> 101 confuse
> 100 entice
> 99 guide
> 98 call
> 90 coerce
> 84 do
> 80 go
> 69 seduce
> 67 integrate
> 60 speak
> 60 lull
> 56 tempt
> 49 throw
> 47 provide
> 46 coax
> 41 kid
> 41 intimidate
> 38 invest
> 37 cross
> 34 drop
> 33 rush
> 29 stimulate
> 26 persuade
> 25 frighten
> 23 take
> 22 plunge
> 22 incorporate
> 19 make
> 19 lock
> 19 convince
> 18 pour
> 18 hoodwink
> 18 badger
> 17 shame
> 17 motivate
> 15 tease
> 15 regard
> 15 breathe
> 13 draw
> 12 dream
> 11 move
> 10 sucker
> 10 panic
> 10 harass
>
>
>
>
> On 20 November 2013 10:42, 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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