  Nominalization is a highly productive phenomena in most languages. The
process of nominalization ejects a verb from its syntactic role into a nominal
position. The original verb is often replaced by a semantically emptied support
verb (e.g., "make a proposal"). The choice of a support verb for a given
nominalization is unpredictable, causing a problem for language learners as
well as for natural language processing systems. We present here a method of
discovering support verbs from an untagged corpus via low-level syntactic
processing and comparison of arguments attached to verbal forms and potential
nominalized forms. The result of the process is a list of potential support
verbs for the nominalized form of a given predicate.
