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BrownPassives: Frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the Brown corpus

Description

This data set contains frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the Brown corpus of written American English (Francis & Kucera 1964), aggregated by genre category.

Usage

BrownPassives

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 15 rows and the following columns:

cat:

genre category code (A ... R)

passive:

number of passive verb phrases

n_w:

total number of words in the genre category

n_s:

total number of sentences in the genre category

name:

descriptive label for the genre category

Author

Stephanie Evert (https://purl.org/stephanie.evert)

References

Francis, W.~N. and Kucera, H. (1964). Manual of information to accompany a standard sample of present-day edited American English, for use with digital computers. Technical report, Department of Linguistics, Brown University, Providence, RI.

See Also

LOBPassives, BrownLOBPassives