No. |
Pattern / Implicature |
| 1 |
[[Human 1]^[Institution 1]^[Document]] say [Proposition|Eventuality | {nothing|it|little|everything|a lot|this|that|word|anything} | THAT-CL|WH-CL|QUOTE] (({to} Human 2)^({to} Institution 2)) |
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[[Human 1 | Institution 1]] utters {[CLAUSE] | [QUOTE]} in speech or in [[Document]] addressed to [[Human 2 | Institution 2]] |
| 2 |
[{this|that|it|which}] is to say * [THAT-CL|WH-CL|QUOTE] |
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{This|that|it} means [THAT-CL|QUOTE] |
| 3 |
[no object]
[[Human]^[Institution]] say [{to} Self] |
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[[Human | Institution]] thinks {that [CLAUSE] | [QUOTE]} |
| 4 |
[passive]
[Anything] is said * [TO+INF] |
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A rumour is going around to the effect that [[Anything]] [V] |
| 5 |
[passive]
[{it}] said * [THAT-CL] ({of} Anything) |
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There is a rumour (about [[Anything]]}) {that [CLAUSE]} |
| 6 |
[Human] say [[the Word | {word}]^[Phrase]] |
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[[Human]] utters [[Word | Phrase]] phonetically (in a particular way) |
| 7 |
[Eventuality] say [nothing|little|everything|a lot|much|this|that|anything | THAT-CL|WH-CL|QUOTE] ({about} Anything = topic) |
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[[Eventuality]] provides evidence for the truth of [CLAUSE] |
| 8 |
idiom
[idiom]
[Human | {you}] would say [THAT-CL|QUOTE]
|
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Do you think it is true {that [CLAUSE]}? |
| 9 |
idiom
[idiom]
[{you | one}] cannot say [{fairer than that}]
|
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What has just been said is reasonable. |
| 10 |
idiom
[no adverbial] [idiom]
exact phrase=needless to say,
say [THAT-CL]
|
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it is obvious []THAT-CL|Quote] |
| 11 |
idiom
[no object] [no adverbial] [idiom]
exact phrase=, say
say
|
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for instance |
| 12 |
[{we|you|one|you}] can|might say [THAT-CL|WH-CL|QUOTE] |
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{we|I|one|you} know or find likely to be true |
| 13 |
exact phrase=[Eventuality 1] [...] that said, [Eventuality 2]
[Human | QUOTE] say |
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despite [Eventuality 1], [Eventuality 2] occurs |
| 14 |
[{it|inscription|notice|header|headline|sub-head|title|subtitle}] say [QUOTE] |
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it is written somewhere [QUOTE|THAT-CLAUSE] |