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 o…
Presents a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. This book discusses morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; patterns of word order in a pragmatic persp…