| Systemic Process Type Database | Inas
Mahfouz | A database of 350 verb senses analysed using
the Halliday and Matthiessen approach. Author's
Description: This Process Type DataBase (PTDB) makes use of
Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) as expounded by
M.A. K. Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) to determine the process
type related to each sense of polysemous verbs. The researcher
adopts the view that the sense of the verb affects the process
type that this verb realizes. Hence polysemous verbs may realize
more than one process type. The present database comprises 310
senses, fixed expressions and idioms as well as phrasal
verbs. The researcher lists the various senses of polysemous
verbs and the process type realized by each of them along with
the macro and micro contexts where each of these senses usually
appears. The data of analysis is extracted from the BNC-
Baby. This corpus appeared in August 2004. The researcher
analyzes the most frequent verbs in the various domains of this
corpus. The PTDB comprises seven columns: the verb, its total
frequency, its various senses, the process type realized by each
sense, the micro context, the macro context and notes. Finally,
this PTDB is intended as a lifetime project that the researcher
dreams of developing in order to pave the way towards automatic
Transitivity analysis.
Availability:Email the author: inas.mahfouz AT gmail.com
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