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

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.