VLIKother Likelihood verbs (other contexts)
Definition
Likelihood 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 (68 items)
assume
assumed
assumes
assuming
believe
believed
believes
believing
doubt
doubted
doubting
doubts
gather
gathered
gathering
gathers
guess
guessed
guesses
guessing
hypothesise
hypothesised
hypothesises
hypothesising
hypothesize
hypothesized
hypothesizes
hypothesizing
imagine
imagined
imagines
imagining
predict
predicted
predicting
predicts
presume
presumed
presumes
presuming
presuppose
presupposed
presupposes
presupposing
reckon
reckoned
reckoning
reckons
seem
seemed
seeming
seems
speculate
speculated
speculates
speculating
suppose
supposed
supposes
supposing
suspect
suspected
suspecting
suspects
think
thinking
thinks
thought
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.