Abstract
This article deals with the factivity and effectiveness of Russian propositional speech verbs. Some Russian propositional speech verbs can be factive if their subordinate proposition is always true, and some can be effective predicates if the speech act always accompanies a change of the recipient’s mental state. Russian propositional speech verbs are divided into four groups according to their factivity and effectiveness, i.e. speech verbs that are 1. factive and effective, 2. factive and non-effective, 3. non-factive and effective, and 4. non-factive and non-effective. Among Russian propositional speech verbs, non-factive and non-effective verbs are in the majority, and there are very few Russian speech verbs that are factive and non-effective. The other groups of Russian speech verbs are semantically characterized: the factive and effective ones have a ‘revealing’ semantic component and the non-factive and effective ones—one of ‘informing’.
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