Comparative Concept: wishing predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
wishing predicate (cxn)
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| Alias(se) | wishing predicate |
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the predicate expressing a wishing event. Example: in Jill wishes that Joe had won the election, the wishing predicate wishes expresses Jill's evaluation of Joe's winning the election, and also presupposes that the speaker believes that Joe didn't win the election. (Section 18.2.2)