In:Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Vassiliki Geka
[Constructional Approaches to Language 39] 2025
► pp. 58–88
Chapter 4The believe-family constructions
Published online: 1 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.c4
Article outline
- 4.1The semantics of the verb ‘believe’
- 4.2believe me
- ‘Believe + me’ in its fully compositional semantics
- believe me with constructional semantics
- 4.3believe you me
- 4.4believe it or not
- 4.5The believe-family, dialogicity, and discourse unit delimitation
- 4.6The believe-family: Frequency counts, statistical significance, and reliability statistics
- Frequency counts
- believe me: The statistical significance of the data
- believe you me: The statistical significance of the data
- believe it or not: The statistical significance of the data
- The internal reliability of the data
- 4.7Summary and concluding remarks
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