Publications

Publication details [#4969]

Huddleston, Rodney. 1973. Embedded performatives. Linguistic Inquiry 4 (4) : 539–541.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

performative | subordinate clause

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/mitpress/00243892/contp1-1.htm

Annotation

On some exceptions to the constraint prohibiting a verb from having a performative interpretation if it is embedded as the complement of another verb.