sum risk content length 15606 surprised receive many replies comments risk far include alison huettner bart mathias john r lee scott delancey deborah milam berkley tim beasley eric pederson claudia brugman martha okennon andrew carstairs mccarthy sandi michele de oliveira trying get sick get sick debra r west balsa stipcevic decided post summary several reasons 1 comments made respondents sufficiently insecure wonder respondents thought 2 nt want anyone get idea comments might represent authoritative majority opinion 3 although usually try respond individually everyone get tired thinking different ways say thing overwhelmingly unanimously respondents disagreed alison huettner represents majority response funny opposite take risk risked losing game sounds fine risked winning game takes little processing unusual agreement represented tim beasley sound good first paraphrases ran stood risk losing game placed risk losing game second placed jeopardy risk winning game implied sides atlantic want disown e g bart mathias california thoughts thought report expected see uk au something address checked reading message one born raised california find risk winning least moment causes doubletake reaction equivalent put oneself danger however john r lee edinburgh address interesting surprised see risked winning game perhaps british english speaker risk losing game seems much natural concept larger context makes think john considers british speaker case andrew carstairs mccarthy new zealand made similar comment back american side scott delancey agrees majority adds interesting grammatical comments seems really strange reactions exactly opposite clausal complement _ risk _ always negative undesirable result cant even interpret _ risked winning game _ except strained context winning would nt good thing _ risk _ positive np complement _ risked fortune _ perfectly ok clausal one e could expanded _ risked losing fortune _ _ risked winning fortune _ impossible eric pederson claudia brugman informed chuck fillmore written paper risk claudia writes sue atkins charles fillmore nt know whether published indeed finished yet talk two meanings word terms selection complements different aspects conceptual semantic frame one desired outcome selected collateral selected nt seen paper yet comforting extent seems take cognizance impression however suspect collateral means simple np expressing desirable object scott allows clausal complement thus replies suggested risked life would expanded risked losing life admit sounds better risked keeping life nevertheless theory rush learn english made following logical leap risk life risk something good risk winning game losing game risking fines death imprisonment cancer later experiences quite sure risking life first ex pression heard way sure differ others favorite gallicism running risk something bad happening happen different expression kinda doubt genuine dialect differences respo nsible differences risk idiosyncratic differences generalisations survive contradictory data learned later interesting point made language acquisition theory among interesting comments received suggest relatively discrete semantic splits may result processes even become genuine dialect features sandi michele de oliveira observation south texas expression trying get sick used get sick wonder trying rain could mean threatening rain dialects possibly different origin ambivalent serbo croatian verb sumnjati doubt suspect balsa stipcevic indicated sumnjam da je uradio two meanings 1 suspect 2 doubt suppose verb might started neutral belief status sentential complement remains interesting glaring pragmatic ambiguity speaker might implying maybe english wonder similar wonder says sentence would seem suggest doubt says nt would seem mean doubt gon na torture trying figure whether context ualisation differences work wonder maybe someone body else wants give shot wrote back balsa hoped comment verb generally agreed upon serbo croatian speakers comment risk benji