This paper investigates grammatical variation in the complementation of the verb provide. It describes the distribution of the four possible patterns with two internal arguments and the interaction between pattern choice and lexical choice. The study finds and documents significant differences in the preferred complementation patterns for American and British English as well as for spoken and written news genres. It also establishes the double object construction as a viable option for American English. Methodologically, this study is based on robust automatic syntactic annotation and computerized retrieval from a data-set comprising 2.5 billion words. It is this large amount of data that permits the observation of strong preferences in terms of pattern choice at the interface between grammar and lexis.

中文翻译：

---

提供补语的词汇偏好和变异

本文研究了动词provide 补语的语法变化。它用两个内部参数描述了四种可能模式的分布以及模式选择和词汇选择之间的相互作用。该研究发现并记录了美式英语和英式英语以及口语和书面新闻类型的首选补充模式的显着差异。它还确立了双宾语结构作为美式英语的可行选择。在方法论上，这项研究基于强大的自动句法注释和计算机检索，该数据集包含 25 亿个单词。正是如此大量的数据允许在语法和词汇之间的界面上观察模式选择方面的强烈偏好。