Comparative Concept: commentative predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
commentative predicate (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | commentative predicate |
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the predicate expressing a commentative event. Example: in Nancy is glad that Joe won the election, the commentative predicate is glad expresses Nancy's evaluation of Joe's winning the election, and also presupposes that the speaker believes that Joe indeed won the election. (Section 18.2.2)