declarative

Decl(S) DecNC

1) the grammatical form of sentence used principally to assert a proposition, but also to perform a verbal act; the d. sentence may also make a promise, give advice, issue a law or regulation, or prescribe an action, ¶3-3-2; with suitable intonation the d. sentence may ask a question, ¶3-3-6; a d. sentence opposes an imperative and an interrogative and may be characterized using three primitive objects and three primitive predicates, ¶3-5-1; also a semantic feature characterizing a quotative noun clause as an embedded d. sentence 2) a transformation being a rule of interpretation for the d. sentence, §3-6; §5-2 3) a noun clause whose most felicitous paraphrase is an assertion — declarative in form, ¶6-3-2, §12-2; the d. noun clause is often referred to in the literature as a content clause; a d. noun clause may be factive, potential, subjunctive, or volative