Contribution to Book
Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency
Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation.
(2019)
Abstract
We introduce the notion of a "quasi-factive" -- sentences such as 'It isn't widely known that Obama has been arrested, which is true because he hasn't been arrested -- and offer an explanation of why we hear them as if they were factives.
Keywords
- Quasi-factives,
- Relevance Theory,
- Deirdre Wilson,
- Presupposition
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
Editor
K. Scott, B. Clark and R. Carston
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publisher Statement
Uncorrected authors' proofs
Citation Information
Axel Barcelo Aspeitia and Robert J. Stainton. "Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency" CambridgeRelevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation. (2019) p. 53 - 65 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robertstainton/143/