Corpus Pattern Analysis and Sense Disambiguation. A Case Study

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: The aim of the present paper is to figure out if and how the target words of this study, verbs derived from adjectives with the suffix –ify that were selected from the NOW Corpus, differ in use and show different meanings in conte...