Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Endre Abkarovits: The -ing form after finite verbs in the reference books of the nineties

stop 1,2 1,2 1 1,2. 1,2 1,2,(3) 1,2 suggest 1 1 1,3 1 1 1 1 tolerate 1,2 1,2 1,2,(3) try 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 understand 1,2,3 2 2 1,(2),(3) urge 1 visualize 1,2 2 2 1,2 want 1,2 1 1 1 1 1,2 1 Abbreviations: CG?: Collins COBUILD Grammar Patterns CCED: Collins COBUILD English Dictionary ALEX: Longman English Grammar LDOCE: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English OGEG: Oxford Guide to English Grammar OALD: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary CIDE: Cambridge International Dictionary of English Figures in brackets stand for insufficient information in the case of dictionaries. These new dictionaries normally give the pattern illustrated by at least one example, but in some cases either the pattern or the example is missing. 'Prep' means that the use of the -ing form is indicated only in the presence of a preposition. 4 Comments on the table If we compare the individual books, we can find features that are quite common and others that may be different also in the case of the same publisher. The COBUILD dictionary drops the -ing construction in the case of quite a lot of verbs, although even its own database shows many examples for the missing pattern. Their more recent book on grammar patterns indicates the -ing form with many verbs the dictionary forgot to, but just like the dictionary it does not pay any attention to the possessive/genitive construction, it carefully selects all the examples with the accusative. It is not quite clear why the missing patterns in the second edition of the dictionary were not compensated. The Cambridge dictionary cares mainly for the basic construction and an example of a logical subject in between is quite accidental, even then with accusative forms. ('Necessitate' is the only exception.) Longman is also careful to select only accusative 87