The Factive-Reported Distinction in English /

The Factive-Reported Distinction in English / / Caroline Gentens.

This study offers a reconceptualization of the factive presupposition. It presents a cognitive-functional account based on three central features: the event structure of semantic classes of matrix predicates, the sources of modal stances in the complement clause, and the coercive potential of predic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Gentens, Caroline,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 342
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 253 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prior definitions of factivity. Disparate views
  • 3. Representational semantics
  • 4. Interpersonal semantics. Modality
  • 5. Object extraposition
  • 6. The diachrony of the fact that-clauses
  • 7. I regret (to say). From factive to reporting construction
  • 8. Conclusions
  • References
  • Index

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