An empirical classification of verbs based on Semantic Types: the case of the 'poison' verbs
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This article proposes a new approach to verb classification based on Semantic Types selected in corpus-based verb patterns. This work !"#$%& '(& )#(*%+%& ,-.'"/& '0& 1'"2%& #(!& 3xploitations (Hanks 2013) and applies Corpus Pattern Analysis to a subset of verbs from Lev4(+%&56'4%'(+&78#%%9&4(78:!4(;&<."=%&%:7-&#%& hang and stab. These patterns are taken from the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs, which aims at recording prototypical phraseological patterns for the most frequent verbs of English using the British National Corpus.
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