Reasons and factive emotions

Emotions and leadership. Reasons and impact of emotions in organizational context.

Emotions as reasons for dissatisfaction, decreasing job performance or physical and mental strain at work are becoming more and more important. Especially psycho-social interactions with conflicts between employees and managers, caused by leadership behavior, as a source of negative emotions are relevant in this context. Which relevance emotions can have in order to influence human behavior and...

factive verbs and protagonist projection

Nearly all philosophers agree that only true things can be known. But does this principle reect actual patterns of ordinary usage? Several examples in ordinary language seem to show that ‘know’ is literally used non-factively. By contrast, this paper reports ve experiments utilizing explicit paraphrasing tasks, which suggest that these non-factive uses are actually not literal. Instead, they ...

Factive Relative Clauses in Pulaar

Annotating Factive Verbs

We have created a scheme for annotating corpora designed to capture relevant aspects of factivity in verb-complement constructions. Factivity constructions are a well-known linguistic phenomenon that embed presuppositions about the state of the world into a clause. These embedded presuppositions provide implicit information about facts assumed to be true in the world, and are thus potentially v...

Factive Presuppositions, Accommodation and Information Structure

There are three ways to refer to a fact from the complement of a factive verb: 1) via abstract object anaphoric reference, or, with a full sentential complement that will be interpreted either 2) as a bound presupposition or 3) as triggering a presupposition of a fact that will have to be accommodated. Spoken corpus examples reveal that these three possibilities differ in relation to the type o...