searching verb+noun collocations in Pakistani English

[saima afzal]

Dear Mr Laurence 

I am building a corpus of Pakistani English to study the distinctive collocations in Pakistani English. e.g. minting millions is a collocation unique to  PakE. It is used in the sense of embezzlement. Since manual extraction takes a lot of time I want to know of a software which can enable the extraction of verb noun collocations from which the unique ones could be sifted.  Could you pl tell me if it's possible to extract verb noun collocations in antconc? If not then could you tell me of a different (free) software that could enable me to extract verb+noun collocations.

Thanking you in anticipation

Saima Afzal 

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Saima,

Sorry for the slow response. If you are just looking for a list of contiguous two-word chunks with the first being a verb and the second being a noun, this is easy to achieve in AntConc using the Clusters tool. First, load in a POS tagged corpus (e.g. tagging your data with my TagAnt tool). Then, simply search for *_V* *_N* in the Cluster tool. The results will show all two word clusters that have this pattern.

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

[saima afzal]

Thanks for your reply.  I  would like to say that Verb noun collocations can have an article  in the middle like conducted an experiment, or an auxiliary like  cake was baked what should I do in that case.

[Laurence Anthony]

You can use || as an OR wildcard. So, you can search for  *_V* *_N*||*_V* * *_N*, which will search for verb + noun with an optional word in between. Change the middle * to a specific tag is that is better for you.

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

[D Yousreya Alhamshary]

Hello dear

Can we have a list of searching formulas?

Thanks in advance

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[Laurence Anthony]

These are just standard searches in AntConc based on wildcards. I suggest you open the demo corpus included with AntConc and try out different search patterns.

Laurence.

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