"constantive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, D. Soyini Madison, Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, →ISBN, page 178:",
          "text": "Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.",
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          "ref": "2016, Rosemary Papa, Danielle M. Eadens, Daniel W. Eadens, Social Justice Instruction: Empowerment on the Chalkboard, →ISBN, page 67:",
          "text": "When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both.",
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          "text": "Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities.",
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