Performative verb - Wikipedia

Performative verbs are verbs carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud. When a judge sentences someone to jail time, for example, the action is ... Performativeverb FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "Performativeverb" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(May2008)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage) Performativeverbsareverbscarriedoutsimplybymeansofutteringthemaloud.Whenajudgesentencessomeonetojailtime,forexample,theactioniscompletedwhenheorshesays,"Iherebysentenceyoutofiveyearsinprison,"orthelike.Comparethiswiththesentence,"Iruneveryday,"inwhichtheverb"run"merelyrepresentstheactionofmovingquickly. Contents 1Otherexamples 2Identification 3Seealso 4References Otherexamples[edit] Weorderthedefendanttopaydamagesintheamountof$20,000. Imoveforamistrial. Iquit. Iresign. Ido.(weddingvow) Identification[edit] Onecanidentifyaperformativeverbbyusingthe"Hereby"Test.InEnglish,onlyperformativeverbsmaybeprecededby"hereby"whileotherverbsinthesamecontextareunacceptable.[1]Forexample,inthesentencesbelow,1and2differonlyintheverbandbothareacceptable.Inthecorrespondingpair,3and4,theuseof"hereby"beforethenon-performativeverbseeisnotcoherentbecausetheactionofseeingisnotperformedsimplybyitsutterance. Iconferthisaward Iseethisaward Iherebyconferthisaward #Iherebyseethisaward Seealso[edit] Performativeutterance Speechact References[edit] ^Fromkin,Victoria.(2011).Anintroductiontolanguage.Rodman,Robert.,Hyams,NinaM.,1952-(9th ed.).Boston,Mass.:Wadsworth,CengageLearning.p. 216.ISBN 978-1-4282-6392-5.OCLC 426795581. vteLexicalcategoriesandtheirfeaturesNoun Abstract/Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Nounadjunct Proper Relational Strong/Weak Verbal/Deverbal VerbForms Attributive Converb Finite/Nonfinite Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle Supine Transgressive Verbalnoun Types Ambitransitive Andative/Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive Dynamic Exceptionalcase-marking Frequentative Germanicstrong Germanicweak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative Preterite-present Pure Reflexive Regular/Irregular Separable Stative Stretched Transitive Unaccusative Unergative Adjective Anti-intersective Collateral Common Demonstrative Intersective Nominalized Non-intersective Possessive Postpositive Proper Pureintersective Relativesubsective Subsective Adverb Conjunctive Flat Genitive Interrogative Locative Prepositional Pronominal Relative Pronoun Boundvariable Demonstrative Disjunctive Distributive Donkey Dummy Formal/Informal Gender-neutral/Gender-specific Inclusive/Exclusive Indefinite Intensive Interrogative Personal Possessive Reciprocal Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong/Weak Subject/Object/Prepositional Adposition Casallymodulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative Interrogative Possessive Quantifier Particle Discourse Interrogative Modal Noun Possessive Other Classifier Measureword Complementizer Conjunction Copula Coverb Interjection Ideophone Onomatopoeia Preverb Procedureword Pro-form Pro-verb/Pro-sentence Prop-word Syntax–semanticsinterface Yesandno vteFormalsemantics(naturallanguage)Centralconcepts Compositionality Denotation Entailment Extension Generalizedquantifier Intension Logicalform Presupposition Proposition Reference Scope Speechact Syntax–semanticsinterface Truthconditions TopicsAreas Anaphora Ambiguity Binding Conditionals Definiteness Disjunction Evidentiality Focus Indexicality Lexicalsemantics Modality Negation Propositionalattitudes Tense–aspect–mood Quantification Vagueness Phenomena Antecedent-containeddeletion Cataphora Coercion Conservativity Counterfactuals Cumulativity Dedictoanddere Dese Deonticmodality Discourserelations Donkeyanaphora Epistemicmodality Faultlessdisagreement Freechoiceinferences Givenness Crossovereffects Hurforddisjunction Inalienablepossession Intersectivemodification Logophoricity Mirativity Modalsubordination Negativepolarityitems Opaquecontexts Performatives Privativeadjectives Quantificationalvariabilityeffect Responsivepredicate Risingdeclaratives Scalarimplicature Sloppyidentity Subsectivemodification Subtrigging Telicity Temperatureparadox Veridicality FormalismFormalsystems Alternativesemantics Categorialgrammar Combinatorycategorialgrammar Discourserepresentationtheory Dynamicsemantics Framesemantics Generativegrammar Gluesemantics Inquisitivesemantics Intensionallogic Lambdacalculus Mereology Montaguegrammar Segmenteddiscourserepresentationtheory Situationsemantics Supervaluationism Typetheory TTR Concepts Autonomyofsyntax Contextset Continuation Conversationalscoreboard Existentialclosure Functionapplication Meaningpostulate Monads Possibleworld Quantifierraising Quantization Questionunderdiscussion Squiggleoperator Strictconditional Typeshifter Universalgrinder Seealso Cognitivesemantics Computationalsemantics Distributionalsemantics Formalgrammar Inferentialism Linguisticswars Philosophyoflanguage Pragmatics Context Deixis Semanticsoflogic Thissemanticsarticleisastub.YoucanhelpWikipediabyexpandingit.vte Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Performative_verb&oldid=1057899465" Categories:VerbtypesSemanticsSemanticsstubsHiddencategories:ArticlesneedingadditionalreferencesfromMay2008AllarticlesneedingadditionalreferencesAllstubarticles Navigationmenu Personaltools NotloggedinTalkContributionsCreateaccountLogin Namespaces ArticleTalk English Views ReadEditViewhistory More Search Navigation MainpageContentsCurrenteventsRandomarticleAboutWikipediaContactusDonate Contribute HelpLearntoeditCommunityportalRecentchangesUploadfile Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesUploadfileSpecialpagesPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispageWikidataitem Print/export DownloadasPDFPrintableversion Languages 日本語 Editlinks