| However, commissive acts are not promises and rather vague things that may be called espousals. |
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| Within deontic modality Palmer lists permissive, obligative and commissive, while dynamic modality includes abilitive and volitive. |
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| True third-person descriptions of commissive acts entail a moral judgment about the rightness of fulfilling the commission. |
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| In these lines, Othello utters two directives and one commissive. |
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| I suspect resistance to the commissive construal is due to our sense that, in addition to several commissions, there were significant omissions on the officers' part. |
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| These commissive speech acts portrayed Teacher L as powerful, authoritarian, and tough as well as someone who seemed always ready to use her power. |
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