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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