| Preface |
S. IX |
| |
| 1. |
Preliminaries |
S. 1 |
| 1.1. |
Purpose |
S. 1 |
| 1.2. |
Summary |
S. 1 |
| 1.3. |
Delineation of the topic |
S. 2 |
| 1.4. |
Theory of grammar |
S. 3 |
| 1.5. |
The grammar |
S. 4 |
| 1.6. |
Complementation |
S. 6 |
| 2. |
Presupposition |
S. 8 |
| 2.1. |
Review of the literature |
S. 8 |
| 2.2. |
Logical factive presuppositions |
S. 12 |
| 2.3. |
Cognitive factives and speaker presuppositions |
S. 15 |
| 3. |
Factivity |
S. 20 |
| 3.1. |
The term ‘factivity’ |
S. 20 |
| 3.2. |
Review of the literature |
S. 21 |
| 3.3. |
The head noun fact |
S. 25 |
| 3.4. |
Syntactic effects of factives presuppositions |
S. 29 |
| 4. |
Factive adjectives: classification |
S. 32 |
| 4.1. |
Obj-comp factive adjectives |
S. 32 |
| 4.2. |
Subj-comp factive adjectives |
S. 46 |
| 4.3. |
Factive adjectives and factive verbs |
S. 53 |
| 5. |
The analysis |
S. 56 |
| 5.1. |
Methodological considerations |
S. 56 |
| 5.2. |
Emotive factives |
S. 57 |
| 5.3. |
Evaluative obj-comp factive adjectives |
S. 82 |
| 5.4. |
Cognitive factive predicates |
S. 93 |
| 5.5. |
Pure evaluative subj-comp predicates |
S. 98 |
| 6. |
Representation of factive presuppositions |
S. 106 |
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| Appendix |
S. 110 |
| Bibliography |
S. 123 |
| Index |
S. 127 |