[Corpora-List] Previous studies on the frequencies of phrasal verbs in the BNC (spoken)

[Mark Davies]

Using the BYU corpus interface (http://corpus.byu.edu), you can easily find the frequency of phrasal verbs in the following corpora. (Note: these links are to just phrasal verbs with <up>, but you can search by any ADV particle. Also, the results are grouped by lemma, but you can group by word as well).

-- the 10 million words of spoken in the BNC
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/?c=bnc&q=25350203

-- the *90* million words of spoken in COCA
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=25350166

-- the 100 million words of SOAP (US soap operas; quite informal):
http://corpus2.byu.edu/soap/?c=soap&q=25350237

You can also extract these from the freely-available n-grams from COCA (http://www.ngrams.info/), for example:
http://www.ngrams.info/coca/verb_adv.txt

Bottom line -- it probably doesn't make sense to limit just to the BNC (fairly small spoken corpus; now 20 years old) -- there's a lot of other material available nowadays.

Best,

Mark D.

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Mark Davies
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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Subject: [Corpora-List] Previous studies on the frequencies of phrasal verbs in the BNC (spoken)

Dear Corpora-List users,

I would like to look for any previous studies on the frequency analysis of phrasal verbs in the spoken part of the BNC. It would be useful if I could have the information about the most frequent phrasal verbs found in the BNC spoken and their frequencies, or any related studies (frequency analysis of phrasal verbs in other corpora of spoken English).

Thank you.


Best regards,
Maggie

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