'V -ing' - Construction 11
| Name: | the intend doing construction |
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| Description: | A person engages in thought about a future activity. |
| Verbs: | anticipate, consider, contemplate, debate, envisage, fantasize, imagine, intend, visualize, count on, figure on, plan on, reckon on |
| Example: | We intended spending most of our time in the north of the island… (BNC) |
| Membership: | cognition; non-attitudinal |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; -ing-clause: Phenomenon
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