Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

January 2019

Source

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation.

First Page

53

Last Page

65

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.

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