is what you wash your face in...
is a joke an english teacher told her class a loong time ago
08.10.2023 17:28
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is what you wash your face in...
is a joke an english teacher told her class a loong time ago
New paper w/ @ozdeniz.bsky.social (to appear in Proc of SALT): psyarxiv.com/dbh4z/ There has been much attention on the phenomenon of "factivity alternation" in a number of langs ie. some clause-embedding predicates are interpreted factively wrt one embedding strategy but not in another.
wow a statement that is both false and a presupposition failure
right in time for the new semester!
somebody must have gotten a kick out of conjoining them