factively
factively adverb: in a factive manner.
Adverb
factively (not comparable)
- In a factive manner.
- This work shows that a nominalized clause with the internal type ‘pro-fact’ noun –(u)n kes in Korean (and in Japanese as well with koto), witness-based, is factively presupposed by itself and contradicted if predicated by negated veracious adjectives in a veridicality test.2019, Chungmin Lee, “Factivity alternation of attitude 'know' in Korean, Mongolian, Uyghur, Manchu, Azeri, etc. and content clausal nominals”, in Journal of Cognitive Science, volume 20, number 4...
- In the last few years, the traditional analysis of know as a factive verb has been lively debated by linguists and philosophers of language: several scholars have pointed out that know may be used non-factively in ordinary language. The aim of the present study is to expand this inquiry to other...2022, Colonna Dahlman, R., & van de Weijer, J., “Cognitive factive verbs across languages. Accepted manuscript, in press”, in Language Sciences, retrieved 22 Jan 2022
Origin of factively
From factive + -ly.
Questions about factively
- What does factively mean?
- Factively means in a factive manner.
- What part of speech is factively?
- Factively is an adverb.
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