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factively

factively adverb: in a factive manner.

Adverb

factively (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Words near factively in the dictionary

  1. factitively
  2. factitiveness
  3. factitivity
  4. factitude
  5. factive
  6. factively
  7. factiveness
  8. factives
  9. factivity
  10. factless
  11. factlessly

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