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