non-factiveadj.n.
/ˌnɒnˈfaktɪv/, U.S. /nɑnˈfæktɪv/ Linguistics.
A. adj.
Of a verb: not assigning to its object (usually a clause) the status of either truth or falsehood. Of a predicate: that follows a verb of this type.Examples of non-factive verbs are assume, believe; in contrast know is a factive verb and pretend a contrafactive one.
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commonc1450
personal?1482
perfect1530
valuative1566
suppletive1633
auxiliary1751
active-passive1859
mutative1866
preterito-presential1875
preterite-present1888
passival1892
preteritive present1894
applicative1903
injunctive1910
activo-passive1927
ornative1934
eventive1946
notional1957
non-factive1969
contrafactive1979
1969 Found. Lang. 5 238 That John won't go seems likely to anyone has a non-factive main verb.
1970 P. Kiparsky & C. Kiparsky in M. Bierwisch & K. E. Heidolph Progress in Linguistics 144 We shall be concerned with the differences in structure between sentences constructed with factive and non-factive predicates.
1976 Philos Q. 26 333 Several semantically non-factive verbs, conjecture, assent, allege, do not take the accusative and infinitive construction.
1983 C. J. Fox Information & Misinformation vi. 132 Factive predicates fail to take certain infinitive constructions that are frequently acceptable with non-factive predicates.
1994 Appl. Linguistics 15 213 It is tempting to look at how degree of reliability of knowledge is encoded, for example in the use of factive predicates (which presuppose the truth of the proposition), and non-factive predicates (which make no such presupposition).
B. n.
A non-factive verb or verbal construction.
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vocative verbc1414
activec1450
passivec1450
substantive verba1475
neuter1530
gesture1612
nominal1666
quiescent1720
reduplicative1756
dative verb1844
factitive1845
preterite-present1859
compound verb1863
pro-verb1868
preterito-presentia1870
preteritive present1872
action verb1877
verbid1914
inversive1931
eventive1946
hypothetical1957
non-factive1970
commonization1973
contrafactive1985
1970 P. Kiparsky & C. Kiparsky in M. Bierwisch & K. E. Heidolph Progress in Linguistics 147 All predicatives which behave syntactically as factives have this semantic property, and almost none of those which behave syntactically as non-factives have it.
1981 Jrnl. Philos. 78 681 When we concentrate on the constraints of the first sort which are clearly reflected in language, we find a striking difference between factives (sees, see that, knows that) and nonfactives (believes that, says that).
1983 C. J. Fox Information & Misinformation vi. 131 Factives and non-factives do not differ in every construction in which they appear.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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