Corpora: future expressions in the BNC

From: Ute Röme (ute.roemer@uni-koeln.de)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 19:03:44 MET

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    Hi Corpus Linguists!

    I'm wondering whether one of you could possibly help me with a research project on future expressions in English. I'm looking for several structures in the spoken part of the British National Corpus and I have some problems to find types like "VERBing", "will be VERBing" and so on.
    Is there a possibility to find all present progressive forms without doing a separate query on every single verb, i. e. is it possible to insert some kind of "place marker" indicating "base form of lexical verb"?

    Thanks a lot for your help!

    Many Greetings from Cologne,
    Ute Römer

    ute.roemer@uni-koeln.de

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