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Factivity and Factualness
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Factive predicates exhibit a series of contrasts with respect to their nonfactive counterparts, both in Slavic and cross-linguistically. At the level of interpretation, factives such as
know and
regret typically project presuppositions, which are assumed to be true by the speaker, whereas nonfactives such as
think and
say do not introduce such presuppositional readings. Factive constructions also differ from others at the level of morphosyntax. One syntactic area in which factives exhibit distinctive features in some Slavic languages, in…
Date:
2024-01-23
