ABSTRACT
The present chapter serves as an orientation point on the basis of which more precise research questions can be put forth and a coding scheme can be developed. My point of departure is a series of distributional analyses of linguistic forms of the sort carried out by the American structural linguists (cf. Harris, 1951). The present chapter reports some preliminary findings and describes the coding, but a further aim is to outline a methodology for working with data that is by no means limited to the issues of agentivity and control, nor to the analysis of the particular linguistic forms analyzed here. The present methodology could easily be extended to the analysis of other linguistic forms.
