Higher performative verbs are postulated as a part of the logical structure of the Cashibo language. Main evidence: the occurrence of two modals, 'ka' and 'isa/ is' in independent declarative clauses. The hypothesis is said to apply to imperatives and interrogatives as well, which also get 'say' in their logical structure, which means that the performative refers to the 'speech act itself', not to its illocutionary force.