因研究需要，我想用语料库检索动词出现在双宾和介词宾语构式中的频率。目前在使用Brigham Young University Interface的BNC和Contemporary American English Corpus。因本人完全是个生手，所以检索的过程中碰到一些问题。特向各位高手求助。
1. The corpora: BNC and Corpus of Contemporary American English Corpus
2. Purpose: To count the frequencies with which the dative verbs like give are used with the double object (DO) like John gave Mary a book/ John give me (her) a book and prepositional dative construction like John gave a book to Mary (PD).
3. The syntax I used:
DO (Double object constrcution):
For constructions with lexical NP as Recipient: give [nn*] [nn*] context:0/1
For constrcutions with pronouns as Recipient: give [pn*] [nn*]
PD (Prepositioanl dative construction):
give [nn*] to context:0/1
4. Puzzles:
1) When counting the frequencies of the ditransitive constrcution, phrases like “give expert advice”, “give health care” cannot be excluded from the search results. Regarding the prepositional dative construction, idioms like “give rise to” have to be deleted manually. Is there any way that phrases like these can be ignored by defining the syntax?
2) Only two pronouns used as recipients after give were found when I used the search expression give [pn*] [nn*], that is, someone and anyone and there are only 25 instances in total. Since I doubted the research results, I conducted a new search with the syntax give me [nn*], I got 1123 double object constructions altogether, suggesting the syntax I used above is not effective. I’m wondering whether there is a way that all the double object constructions with pronoun reciepients could be obtained at one time.
Your kind help would be greatly appreciated!
1. The corpora: BNC and Corpus of Contemporary American English Corpus
2. Purpose: To count the frequencies with which the dative verbs like give are used with the double object (DO) like John gave Mary a book/ John give me (her) a book and prepositional dative construction like John gave a book to Mary (PD).
3. The syntax I used:
DO (Double object constrcution):
For constructions with lexical NP as Recipient: give [nn*] [nn*] context:0/1
For constrcutions with pronouns as Recipient: give [pn*] [nn*]
PD (Prepositioanl dative construction):
give [nn*] to context:0/1
4. Puzzles:
1) When counting the frequencies of the ditransitive constrcution, phrases like “give expert advice”, “give health care” cannot be excluded from the search results. Regarding the prepositional dative construction, idioms like “give rise to” have to be deleted manually. Is there any way that phrases like these can be ignored by defining the syntax?
2) Only two pronouns used as recipients after give were found when I used the search expression give [pn*] [nn*], that is, someone and anyone and there are only 25 instances in total. Since I doubted the research results, I conducted a new search with the syntax give me [nn*], I got 1123 double object constructions altogether, suggesting the syntax I used above is not effective. I’m wondering whether there is a way that all the double object constructions with pronoun reciepients could be obtained at one time.
Your kind help would be greatly appreciated!
