In the last few years, the traditional analysis of know as a factive verb has been lively debated by linguists and philosophers of language: several scholars have pointed out that know may be used non-factively in ordinary language. The aim of the present study is to expand this inquiry to other cognitive factive verbs than know, such as discover, realize, etc., and to investigate cross-linguistically the question of whether know and other cognitive factive verbs may occur in non-factive contexts, that is, in contexts where it is clear that the embedded proposition is false.

She also invited Marcia Tucker to participate in Dialogue Piece, during which the two women had what Lozano later described as an 'intense if somewhat gossipish' conversation.

In modern China, Sunday is not usually a schoolday except around major holidays.

The flame-retardant used on the child's pajamas would keep them from bursting into flame, but it caused a rash.