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Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency by Edwin Yahir Galvis is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses "quasi-factives", sentences that strongly suggest the truth of a complement clause but are not truly factive upon closer examination. It provides examples of quasi-factive sentences using verbs like "know", "acknowledge", and "regret". The document describes the key characteristics of quasi-factives, including different types of verbs and syntactic configurations. It aims to provide a description of this phenomenon and explain how quasi-factives exploit human cognitive tendencies des
- Author
- Edwin Yahir Galvis
- Language
- EN