Performative verbs are verbs carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud.

The team contest consisted of three problems, on Tocharian, the use of subscripts as indices, and on performative verbs.

Semantic, Pragmatic and Syntactic Correlates: an Analysis of Performative Verbs, based on English Data.

Possible IFIDs in English include: word order, stress, intonation contour, punctuation, the mood of the verb, and performative verbs.

In a virtual community verbs that are not considered to be performative verbs in face-to-face talk can be performative verbs in a chatroom.