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On the basis of my findings I submit that the prepositions used in the construction X is adj./past part. ___ Y are indeed meaningful. The eight prepositions represent eight ways of construing a situation in which an emotion is related to its appraised object. The conditions under which combinations of emotion term, preposition, and following nominal are predictable, are conceptual, not structural.
While there is some NSM in this paper, it does not contain any fully developed explications.
Research carried out in consultation with or under the supervision of one or more experienced NSM practitioners
