Publications

Publication details [#2559]

Davison, Alice. 1970. Causal adverbs and performative verbs. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 6 : 190–201.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

causal adverbial | illocution | performative verb | presupposition

Annotation

Conditions on the use of the causal adverbs 'since', 'as', 'because', 'if' and 'so' are formulated in terms of performative verbs, illocutionary force and presuppositions.