Constative vs Nonstative - What's the difference?
constative | nonstative |
(linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
* One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative , in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by JL Austin (OUP paperback edition, 72)
As adjectives the difference between constative and nonstative
is that constative is (linguistics) pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false while nonstative is not stative.As a noun nonstative is
(grammar) a construct that is not stative.constative
English
Adjective
(-)- ''Statements are constative utterances.