WhVFCT WH-clause after factive verb
Definition
WH subordinate clause preceded by a factive verb.
Detection Rules
Verb from stance list + WH-word.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="W.*"]
Word list (84 items)
conclude
concluded
concludes
concluding
demonstrate
demonstrated
demonstrates
demonstrating
determine
determined
determines
determining
discover
discovered
discovering
discovers
find
finding
finds
found
knew
know
knowing
known
knows
learn
learning
learns
learnt
mean
meaning
means
meant
notice
noticed
notices
noticing
notified
notifies
notify
notifying
observe
observed
observes
observing
prove
proved
proven
proves
proving
realise
realised
realises
realising
realize
realized
realizes
realizing
recognise
recognised
recognises
recognising
recognize
recognized
recognizes
recognizing
remember
remembered
remembering
remembers
saw
see
seeing
seen
sees
show
showed
showing
shown
shows
understand
understanding
understands
understood
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
know what
discover how
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