'V wh' - Construction 10
| Name: | the speculate what might be the case construction |
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| Description: | A person creates a mental image of a possible or future situation. |
| Verbs: | anticipate, conjecture, envisage, envision, fantasize, foresee, foretell, guess, hypothesise, imagine, predict, speculate, surmise, suspect, visualise, wonder |
| Example: | It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been… (BNC) |
| Membership: | Cognition; possible situation |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; wh-clause: Phenomenon
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