[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ]
For the following exercises, use repetition operators like *
, +
and {}
and other regular expressions such as []
, ()
. Like in the previous section, you will also have to be familiar with positional attributes of the BNC. For more information how to use these operators in CQP, please see the Wiki-page on Regular Expressions (Basics).
Query post- as a hyphenated prefix attaching to adverbial bases in the BNC. Use the positional attribute word
(case-insensitive) restricted to pos="AJ."
. How many instances do you find?
Formulate a query that matches all words that begin with in- and end with -ible in the BNC-BABY. How many instances do you find?
Try to think of more than one way to solve each exercise.
Explore the types of objects that the synonymous verbs change and alter collocate with. To do so, proceed accordingly:
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, export a (tidied) frequency list of the nouns in object position for each verb. In the BNC-BABY, you should match roughly 1200 and and 70 instances, respectively.
Find the solutions for the exercises here: Repetition Operators – Solutions
Continue here: 6c. Working with Concordances