[Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing

Thu Nov 21 10:17:46 UTC 2013

Dear Susan,

Many thanks for this important "footnote." I should have added it myself
(as main text) to my posting. Gries and Stefanowitsch acknowledge your work
(Hunston and Francis 2000) as an original account (p 102-04 and p. 106 if I
remember correctly).

Best,
David

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Susan Hunston <s.e.hunston at bham.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Dear Jason, Adam, and the list
>
> Just to add a footnote to David’s message below (with apologies – this
> isn’t the sort of thing I usually do):
>
>
>
> The V n *into* –ing pattern turns out to be very productive, which means
> that the number of verbs found occasionally in it is bound to be large and
> unstable. Some thoughts and observations on the phenomenon are offered in
> S. Hunston and G. Francis *Pattern Grammar: a corpus-driven approach to
> the lexical grammar of English* (1999, Benjamins), chapter 4, section 2,
> with particular comments on this pattern in section 4.2.5 (starts page
> 102). There are some predictions in that section about restrictions on
> meaning for the pattern (as well as discussion of some unusual examples)
> and I’d be interested to see if these had turned out to be correct.
>
>
>
> Susan
>
>
>
> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] *On Behalf
> Of *Oakey, David [ENGL]
> *Sent:* 20 November 2013 14:43
> *To:* Jason Eisner; Adam Kilgarriff
>
> *Cc:* corpora
> *Subject:* Re: [Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing
>
>
>
> Hello Jason and Adam,
>
>
>
> A list from a pedagogical perspective is in *COBUILD Grammar Patterns 1*.
> The  [V Object into V-ing] construction maps onto the grammar pattern V n
> *into* –ing:
>
>
>
> https://arts-ccr-002.bham.ac.uk/ccr/patgram/ch04.html#s17
>
>
>
> This page gives lists of verbs which fit this pattern – they are grouped
> into four principal senses: FORCE (e.g. *force, bully, frighten),* TRICK (*trick,
> entrap, mislead),* CHARM (*charm, cajole, flatter)* and SPUR  (*spur,
> nudge, galvanize). *The Objects are all human, and the Adjunct needs to
> be a prepositional phrase consisting of *into* and a non-finite –ing
> clause*, *and, as Jason points out, not all –ing forms following *into *begin
> non-finite clauses, e.g.
>
>
>
> 1)  his union plans to pursue similar lawsuits to *force manufacturers
> into producing safer needles*
>
>
>
> 2)  Conservatives are eager to *force liberals into embarrassing votes*
>
>
>
> Example 1 is an instance of the construction/pattern, while 2 isn’t.
>
>
>
> Even when *put* appears to be used in this construction/pattern, as in 3
> where *into* introduces a non-finite –ing clause, the Object isn’t human,
> so *put* doesn’t take on any of the *force*, *trick,* *charm* or *spur*meanings:
>
>
>
> 3)    When you *put money into renovating your home*
>
>
>
> I couldn’t find *drop* in COCA with a human Object followed by *into*introducing a non-finite –ing clause.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no<corpora-bounces at uib.no>]
> *On Behalf Of *Jason Eisner
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:58 AM
> *To:* Adam Kilgarriff
> *Cc:* corpora
> *Subject:* Re: [Corpora-List] V Object into V-ing
>
>
>
> 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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