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Web page (pilot study for a much larger project): Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV)

Hanks, Patrick

Authors

Patrick Hanks



Abstract

PDEV is the practical implementation of the Theory of Norms and Exploitations. It is intended as a basic resource for use by language learners, language teachers, translators, and computational linguists. The aim is to identify the patterns of normal usage in which each English verb participates. This pilot study, freely available at http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/cpa, presents the patterns for 700 verbs. The methodology involves corpus-driven analysis of valencies and collocations. This in turn sheds light on paradigmatic lexical sets of nouns and noun phrases, and hence on the fundamental semantic organization of all languages.

Citation

Hanks, P. (2010). Web page (pilot study for a much larger project): Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV)

Other Type Other
Publication Date Jan 1, 2010
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords English verbs
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/985376
Publisher URL http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/cpa