"...the 'to-/that' complement alternation is sensitive to whether the writer intends the reader to focus on the implications of the proposition expressed by the embedded clause, or on the those of the proposition expressed by the sentence as a whole."
Dr. Riddle said this is wrong: "...the use of the infinitive complement is not unconstrained: on the one hand, it can only be used with stative verbs or those marked for perfective aspect; on the other, it is limited to formal, generally written, genres."
Predictions:
"As Noel found, 'believe' complements which introduce information new to the discourse should be more common in a sample of 'believe(s) that X is/are' cases than in a sample of 'believe(s) X to be' cases."
"There should be a higher incidence of behaviour/reaction-explaining cases in a 'believe(s) X to be' sample, for the reasons explained above."
He didn't find a big difefrence.
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