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petrify, scarify, stonify, terrify; antagonize, terrorize, traumatize, etc.). A large
number of Subject Experiencer verbs are zero-derived from nouns: fear, love,
like, dislike, desire, etc.
Syntactically psychological verbs have been traditionally grouped with the
transitive verbs because psychological verbs express a relationship between two
arguments and because they allow the case pattern Nominative-Accusative. The
group of Object Experiencer verbs in standard English includes: alarm, amaze,
amuse, anger, annoy, appall, appease, astonish, astound, awe, baffle, bewilder,
bore, bother, cheer, comfort, concern, cross, delight, depress, discomfit,
disconcert, disappoint, dismay, displease, dissatisfy, distress, disturb, divert,
embarrass, enrage, enrapture, entertain, enthrall, exasperate, excite, exhilarate,
frighten, gladden, gratify, grieve, horrify, infuriate, intimidate, interest, irritate,
irk, mystify, nauseate, outrage, pester, perplex, perturb, placate, please,
preoccupy, repel, rile, sadden, satisfy, scare, shame, shock, startle, stagger, stir,
stress, surprise, tease, terrify, terrorize, traumatize, trouble, torment, upset, vex,
worry, etc.
Subject Experiencer verbs can come in two types: transitive or intransitive.
According to the syntactic configuration in which they appear, Subject
Experiencer verbs can be grouped into:
a) Subject Experiencer verbs which occur in the Nominative-Accusative
pattern: abhor, adore, despise, desire, detest, dislike, dread, enjoy, envy, fear,
fret, hate, like, loath, love, regret, relish, resent, rue, savour, tolerate, worship.
b) Subject Experiencer verbs that take an idiosyncratic preposition: ache
for, care for, crave (for), delight in, dote on, enthuse over/about sth., fear (for),
gloat over, grieve for, hanker after, long for, lust after/ for sth., luxuriate in,
marvel at, revel in, warm to sb., worry about.
c) Reflexive Subject Experiencer verbs, i.e. verbs that may co-occur with a
lexical reflexive anaphor. These verbs are either pairs of Subject Experiencer
verbs (fret oneself about, worry oneself about, etc.) or pairs of causative Object
Experiencer verbs (delude oneself, flatter oneself, irritate oneself, torment
oneself, etc.)
The classification of the psychological verbs into groups and subgroups
clearly shows that they do not form a homogenous group and predicts that there
is variation in the structure and the syntactic behaviour of the corresponding
derived nominals.
1.2. Adjectival psychological predicates.
Constructions that include a psychological adjective also have a Subject
or Object Experiencer interpretation:
He was fearful about her decision.
EXPERIENCER
Violence is abhorrent to him.
EXPERIENCER
Subject Experiencer predicates may contain the verbs be, become, get
which take a psych adjective with the preposition about (to be fearful about,
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