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| Name: | the babble about construction |
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| Description: | A person talks too much about something. The reporter evaluates the quantity of talk negatively. |
| Verbs: | babble on, bang on, blab, blather, blather on, beat on, burble, carry on, drone on, go on, harp on, keep on, prattle on, rabbit on, ramble on, rant, rant on, rattle on, spout forth, spout off, twitter, waffle, waffle on, witter, witter on, yap |
| Example: | …the old man was babbling about a grandson. (BNC) |
| Membership: | communication; unilateral; with affect; external |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Communication.
Roles: NP1: Sayer; NP2: Topic
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