Comparative Concept: declarative (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
declarative (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | declarative |
| Assoziiert |
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Definition
a speech act which simply asserts its propositional content. Example: The English sentence Sandra picked up the children is an instance of a declarative speech act. (Section 12.1)