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Karttunen, Lauri. 1971. Some observations on factivity. Papers in Linguistics 4 (1) : 55–69.
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Article in journal
Publication language
English

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K. argues (i) that it is wrong to think of presupposition as something that can be neatly separated from the main sentence; (ii) that the main verb does not alone determine whether the complement is presupposed to be true: mood and the type of complement are also important; (iii) that the class of factive verbs is less uniform than is usually believed.