Abbreviations
| ACC |
accusative case |
| ACT |
activity |
| ADT |
adjunct |
| ADVP |
adverb phrase |
| AGT |
agent |
| ARG |
(verbal) argument |
| ASC |
argument structure construction |
| BEN |
beneficiary (maleficiary) |
| BNC |
The British National Corpus, Oxford University Computing Services 2001 |
| BT |
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Bosworth & Toller 1921 [1898] |
| C |
clause |
| CH |
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students, Clark Hall 1916 [1894] |
| CV |
An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Cleasby & Vigfússon 1874 |
| CxG |
Construction Grammar |
| cxn |
construction |
| DAT |
dative case |
| DOEC |
Dictionary of Old English Corpus, Healey et al. 2000 |
| DWB |
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. Grimm & Grimm 1854–1961 |
| EPC |
external possessor construction |
| EXP |
experiencer |
| GEN |
genitive case |
| Gmc. |
Germanic |
| IcePaHC |
Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus, Wallenberg et al. 2011 |
| IE |
Indo-European (languages) |
| IPC |
internal possessor construction |
| INF |
infinitive |
| INS |
instrumental case |
| LCC |
Leipzig Corpora Collection, Abteilung Automatische Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Leipzig 2012 |
| LIV2 |
Lexikon der Indogermanischen Verben, Rix et al. 2001 |
| MED |
Middle English Dictionary, Lewis et al. 1952–2001 |
| NOM |
nominative case |
| NP |
noun phrase |
| OBL |
oblique case (ambiguous/neutral between accusative and dative) |
| OE |
Old English |
| OED |
Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press 2021 |
| OHG |
Old High German |
| ON |
Old Norse |
| ORG |
origin |
| PART |
partitive case |
| PAT |
patient |
| PCAR |
process carrier (Vorgangsträger) |
| PGmc. |
Proto-Germanic |
| PIE |
Proto-Indo-European |
| PL |
plural |
| PSSR |
possessor |
| PSSM |
possessum |
| PP |
prepositional phrase (postpositional phrase) |
| PPCME2 |
The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, Kroch & Taylor 2000 |
| PRS |
present tense |
| PI |
present participle |
| PII |
past participle |
| PST |
past tense (preterite) |
| PWGmc. |
Proto-West-Germanic |
| SBJ |
subjunctive |
| SCAR |
state carrier (Zustandsträger) |
| SG |
singular |
| SRC |
source |
| STA |
state |
| STI |
stimulus |
| THM |
theme |
| YCOE |
York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose, Taylor et al. 2003 |
| YCOE-P |
York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, Pintzuk & Plug 2001 |