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The Factive-Reported Distinction in English / Caroline Gentens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 342Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 253 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110666076
  • 9783110666311
  • 9783110669695
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 23/ger/20230216
LOC classification:
  • PE1369 .G46 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.

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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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 predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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