  Some verbs have a particular kind of binary ambiguity: they can carry their
normal, full meaning, or they can be merely acting as a prop for the nominal
object. It has been suggested that there is a detectable pattern in the
relationship between a verb acting as a prop (a \term{support verb}) and the
noun it supports.
  The task this paper undertakes is to develop a model which identifies the
support verb for a particular noun, and by extension, when nouns are
enumerated, a model which disambiguates a verb with respect to its support
status. The paper sets up a basic model as a standard for comparison; it then
proposes a more complex model, and gives some results to support the model's
validity, comparing it with other similar approaches.
