Re: implicational and factive verbs

On 23 Jan, Daniel Andreasson wrote:

>Hey guys.
>
>A somewhat OT-question, although it concerns linguistics
>in general. What's an implicative (implicational?) verb
>and what's a factive verb? A compling friend of mine wants
>to know and I don't know what to tell her. And yes, I did
>look at all the sources I had, before asking the list. :-)
>It isn't even listed in sil's glossary.
>
>Does anyone have even a clue?
    A clue, no; but I _do_ have David Crystal's
"A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" :-)
(I recommend it highly).
    While implicative _verbs_ per se are not listed,
here is what is under the heading of "implicature":

    A term derived from the work of the philosopher H.P. Grice
(1913-88) and now frequently used in linguistics as part of the
study of conversational structure. _Conversational implicatures_
refer to the implications which can be deduced from the form
of an utterance, on the basis of certain co-operative principles
which govern the efficiency and normal acceptability of
conversations, as when the sentence  _There's some chalk on
the floor_  is taken to mean 'You ought to pick it up.'

The entry goes on in some detail about the various types of
implicature, and refers especially to words such as
"therefore", "even", and "yet".

I hope that this helps.

Dan Sulani

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