(of a linguistic context) giving rise to the presupposition that a sentence occurring in that context is true, as John regrets that Mary did not attend
factive in American English
(ˈfæktɪv)
Linguistics
adjective
1. (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase)
presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left
noun
2.
a factive expression
Derived forms
factivity
noun
Word origin
[1605–15; fact + -ive]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: displacement, ferrule, inverse, pivot, surface-ive is a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition,function, connection, etc. Other words that use the affix -ive include: active, corrective, detective, passive, sportive
Examples of 'factive' in a sentence
factive
I assume that factive predicates select a [+ specific] complement.
Marina R.A. Augusto 2003, 'Estruturas factivas e padrões de extração Factive structures: syntactic patterns',DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicadahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502003000200003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It also aims at identifying which factive verbs are much more difficult than others in terms of the presupposed meaning.
Hamzah Saleh Ghammaz 2015, 'An Investigation of the Problems Jordanian EFL Learners Encounter in PresuppositionTriggered by Certain Factive Verbs', International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literaturehttp://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/1793. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The kinds of structures allowed as factive complements are analyzed as well as their corresponding behavior concerning extraction.
Marina R.A. Augusto 2003, 'Estruturas factivas e padrões de extração Factive structures: syntactic patterns',DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicadahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502003000200003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)