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Ross, John Robert. 1970. On declarative sentences. In Jacobs, Roderick A. and Peter S. Rosenbaum, eds. Readings in English transformational grammar. Ginn and Company. pp. 222–272.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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R. formulates the performative hypothesis: every sentence contains in its deep structure a performative verb as the highest verb; this is not only true of the class of performative utterances but also of the constatives, though in the latter case the verb is more likely to be deleted in the derivational process.