Imperatives and Commands
This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, and offers fresh insights on the patterns of human interaction and cognition associated with them.
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This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, and offers fresh insights on the patterns of human interaction and cognition associated with them.
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- Publication Date:2010
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010
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- Description:500 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199207909, 0199207909
- oclc:ocn768120939
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
1. Setting the Scene; 2. Imperatives Worldwide; 3. How Imperatives are Specia 4. Imperatives and Other Grammatical Categories; 5. Negative Imperatives; 6. Imperatives and Their Meanings; 7. Imperatives Which do not Command; 8. Imperatives in Disguise; 9. Imperatives we Live by; 10. Where do Imperatives Come From?; 11. What can we Conclude?; Appendix; References; Index of Authors; Index of Languages, Linguistic Families, and Areas; Index of Subjects
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