I was wondering if anyone know of any work done in corpus based analysis of the argument structure of psych verbs, more specifically if things like the animacy, length or realization (PP vs NP) of the arguments has any correlation with the choice of he verb for pairs like fear/frighten, like/please, etc. I'm currently trying to work this out for Spanish verbs, and having a point of reference would be very helpful.
I know that Elisabeth Verhoeven has done several corpus studies on this topic. You can probably find some stuff at her website (Humboldt University).
I know that Stefan Engelberg (IDS Mannheim) is working on this.
Try to find Ken Hyland (in google or your university library network)
This was a focus for work by Charles Fillmore, B.T.S. Atkins and Ulrich Heid in the 1990s.
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