VATTother Attitudinal verbs (other contexts)

Definition

Attitudinal verbs not followed by that-clause, WH-clause, or to-clause.

Detection Rules

mfte

Verb from stance list, not in complement context.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"]
Word list (62 items)
agree agreed agreeing agrees anticipate anticipated anticipates anticipating complain complained complaining complains concede conceded concedes conceding ensure expect expected expecting expects fear feared fearing fears feel feeling feels felt forget forgets forgetting forgot forgotten hope hoped hopes hoping mind minded minding minds prefer preferred preferring prefers pretend pretended pretending pretends require required requires requiring wish wished wishes wishing worried worries worry worrying

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Sources

  • biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

Residual: same verb list as Th/To/Wh variants, but in non-complement contexts.

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