constative

Etymology
Coined to translate the, using , the perfect passive participial stem of the verb , suffixed with the 🇨🇬, suggesting a hypothetical 🇨🇬 etymon of the form *.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
 * Statements are constative utterances.
 * 1) * 1962, J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (OUP paperback edition, page 72)
 * One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.

Noun

 * 1)  An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.