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Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents
a compositional approach to factivity and its acquisition. Factive
sentences such as >John forgot that he bought wine<
presuppose the truth of the embedded complement. The author argues
that factivity results from the interaction of lexical-semantic,
syntactic, and discourse-semantic factors. Rigorously designed
experiments and a detailed analysis of longitudinal corpora provide
evidence that the multidimensionality is mirrored in the
acquisition process by a stepwise mastery of its different
components. This book should be of interest to advanced students
and researchers in both theoretical linguistics and language
acquisition.
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