Corpora: Re: 'V-ing' in the BNC

From: StThGries@t-online.de
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 07:48:00 MET

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    The word class tags for progressive forms of verbs in the BNC are:
    <w VBG> for 'being';
    <w VDG> for 'doing';
    <w VHG> for 'having';
    <w VVG> for '-ing' of other verbs.

    Alternatively, you might want to use the wildcard function of, say,
    WordSmith Tools or MonoConc (Pro) to find all words ending in 'ing' (by
    searching for *ing), which will of course require some additional manual
    screening in order to exclude words such as 'bring' and 'ring' (the noun)
    from consideration.
    Best

    Stefan Th. Gries

    Sydddansk Universitet
    Institut for Erhvervssproglig Informatik og Kommunikation
    Grundtvigsallé 150
    6400 Sonderborg
    Daenemark / Denmark

    oder / or

    Universitaet Hamburg
    Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
    Von-Melle-Park 6
    20146 Hamburg
    Deutschland / Germany

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