Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“Unlike the ostensive and the imperative, the declarative establishes a linguistic reality that does not depend upon the presence of any particular object or person in the world: it creates and sustains, in the face of the constant force of imperative realities, a model of the world that allows more of the world to be named.”

— Adam Katz, Felicity · Nov 2017 · GABlog