TY - JOUR AU - Orrequia-Barea, Aroa PY - 2020/12/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Study of Direct Speech Complementation with Embedding Verbs: Collostructional Analysis JF - The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies JA - Grove VL - 27 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/5825 SP - 83-102 AB - <p>Non-relational verbs, as opposed to relational ones, cannot replace their complement clause with a complex nominal, meaning that they do not denote a proposition, as the Relational Analysis states. However, direct speech seems to be a proper replacement for the complement clause in the non-relational verb cases. This paper deals with the analysis of some of the most representative taxonomies of embedding verbs using the <em>British National Corpus, </em>to check whether they can occur with direct speech complements; the <em>collostructional analysis</em>, which is a technique of statistical significance; and the programming language <em>R</em> to do it in a computational and automatic way. Thus, the collostructional method will measure the strength between the embedding verbs and their corresponding complement clauses in the direct speech form.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -