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(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

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constative

Source Word

constative

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

Japanese Meaning

情報を伝え、その真偽が判断される発話（言語学における陳述的発話）

The linguistics seminar discussed whether the sentence should be classified as a constative rather than a performative.

言語学のセミナーでは、その文をパフォーマティブではなく事実を述べる発話として分類すべきかどうかが議論された。

Sense（1）

(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.

constatives

（ plural ）