'V about n' - Construction 4
| Name: | the boast about construction |
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| Description: | A person talks in a bad way about something. The reporter evaluates the quality of talk negatively. |
| Verbs: | boast, brag, crow, swank, trumpet; dicker equivocate; pontificate, philosophize, preach; generalise, lie, snigger |
| Example: | Then they boasted about technological innovations… (BNC) |
| Membership: | communication; unilateral; with affect; external |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Communication.
Roles: NP1: Sayer; NP2: Topic
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