1. Introduction; 2. 1. What are Speech Act Verbs?; 3. 1.0 Introduction; 4. 1.1 Speech act verbs and their grammatical behavior; 5. 1.2 The performativity continuum; 6. 1.3 Summary; 7. 2. Why bother about Speech Act Verbs?; 8. 2.1 Introduction; 9. 2.1 Some reasons to study speech acts; 10. 2.2 Some faits divers; 11. 2.3 Some reasons to study speech act verbs; 12. 2.4 Summary; 13. 3. How to Analyze Speech Act Verbs; 14. 3.0 Introduction; 15. 3.1 The unifying feature of speech act verbs; 16. 3.2 Some evidence; 17. 3.3 The magical formula; 18. 3.4 Some stuffing for the formula; 19. 3.5 Summary; 20. 4. How to Account for the Non-Typical Cases; 21. 4.0 Introduction; 22. 4.1 The problem illustrated; 23. 4.2 A possible solution; 24. 4.3 Summary; 25. 5. Conclusion; 26. Footnotes; 27. References