On Speech Act Verbs

• Introduction | p. 1
• 1. What are Speech Act Verbs? | p. 3
• 1.0 Introduction
• 1.1 Speech act verbs and their grammatical behavior
• 1.2 The performativity continuum
• 1.3 Summary
• 2. Why bother about Speech Act Verbs? | p. 19
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.1 Some reasons to study speech acts
• 2.2 Some faits divers
• 2.3 Some reasons to study speech act verbs
• 2.4 Summary
• 3. How to Analyze Speech Act Verbs | p. 43
• 3.0 Introduction
• 3.1 The unifying feature of speech act verbs
• 3.2 Some evidence
• 3.3 The magical formula
• 3.4 Some stuffing for the formula
• 3.5 Summary
• 4. How to Account for the Non-Typical Cases | p. 63
• 4.0 Introduction
• 4.1 The problem illustrated
• 4.2 A possible solution
• 4.3 Summary
• 5. Conclusion | p. 73
• Footnotes | p. 75

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