WhVATT WH-clause after attitudinal verb
Definition
WH subordinate clause preceded by an attitudinal verb.
Detection Rules
Verb from stance list + WH-word.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="W.*"]
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
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
wonder how
worry whether
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