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Hooper, Joan B. 1975. On assertive predicates. In Kimball, John P., ed. Syntax and semantics 4. Academic Press. pp. 91–124.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

assertive verb | factive verb | predicate type | subordinate clause

Annotation

On the assertive/nonassertive distinction between verbs, that intersects with the factive/nonfactive distinction to yield four main classes of predicates whose complements are clauses consisting of 'that' plus a full sentence.