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• Performative hypothesis
  ...act]], i.e. is derived from a deep structure containing a [[performative]] verb.
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• Performative
  ...es with which the speaker performs the action denoted by some performative verb (e.g. promise, declare etc.). In so doing, the speaker does not describe th ...nal content of the utterance functions as a complement of the performative verb.
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