Abstract
An examination of imperative structures involving factive and implicative verbs is developed, that leads to a new analysis of factivity (extending a proposition by Zuber 1977). Strong factives (emotives, but also some non-emotives) presuppose NP knows p. which itself presupposes the truth of p. Semi-factives ( know-type factives) presuppose I know p, and NP knows p is only an implication in this case. Under this hypothesis, the loss of factivity, observed in certain contexts, may be accounted for and an important characteristic of presuppositions may be preserved: they are not sensitive to the modal conditions associated with the different modal operators (in the sense of Jackendoff 1972), while implications are sensitive to these conditions.
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