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Doxastic Feel Like (That), Aarohi Srivastava
Doxastic Feel Like (That), Aarohi Srivastava
Yale Working Papers in Grammatical Diversity
Doxastic feel like is used to convey a belief or opinion, similar to think:
(1) I feel like your drawing is better than mine.
Doxastic feel like is an intriguing topic of study due to the potential for microsyntactic variation, along with the thick web of linguistic prejudice surrounding this construction. Doxastic feel like is primarily associated with stereotypes regarding age, gender, and intelligence. A survey was conduced to measure participants of diverse demographic backgrounds in their acceptability of feel like in different contexts. Overall, respondents were found to have high acceptability of this construction. In addition, respondents were …