Download or read book The Factive-Reported Distinction in English written by Caroline Gentens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a reconceptualization of the factive presupposition. It presents a cognitive-functional account based on three central features: the event structure of semantic classes of matrix predicates, the sources of modal stances in the complement clause, and the coercive potential of predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.