RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Heid, Ulrich YR 2004 T1 Spécificités morpho-syntaxiques des constructions à verbe support en allemand: Analyse de corpus JF Lingvisticæ Investigationes VO 27 IS 2 SP 309 OP 325 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/li.27.2.12hei PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4169, AB In this article, we give evidence for a detailed morpho-syntactic description of support verb constructions (SVCs); we claim that SVCs must be described at the same level of detail as single word items. We give examples from French and German, concerning both, morphosyntactic specificities of the nominal and of the verbal element of a SVC. Furthermore we show that methods of corpus analysis are well suited or the extraction of such data form large amounts of text; the corpus-based aproach is all the more necessary, as most morphosyntactic phenomena within SVCs are preferences rather than categorical features. We describe a range of extraction methods, and we argue for a robust syntactic analysis as a basis for extraction. The article ends with a small case study on preferences of German support verbs with respect to active vs. passive., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/li.27.2.12hei