Comparative Concept: hoping predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
hoping predicate (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | hoping predicate |
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the predicate expressing a hoping event. Example: in Jill hopes that Joe won the election, the commentative predicate hopes expresses Jill's evaluation of Joe's winning the election, and also presupposes that the speaker does not know whether Joe has won the election. (Section 18.2.2)