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1 online resource (xx, 500 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory |
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Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
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Plea; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Tables, diagram, figures, and schemes; 1. Imperatives and commands: setting the scene; 1.1 Imperatives and commands; 1.2 What imperatives are good for; 1.3 The plan of this book; 1.4 The empirical basis, and conventions; 2. Imperatives worldwide; 2.1 Canonical imperatives; 2.1.1 Imperatives with a singular addressee; 2.1.2 Addressing more than one person; 2.1.3 Further issues in imperative formation; 2.1.4 Non-imperative forms in commands; 2.1.5 Markedness and iconicity in canonical imperatives |
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2.2 Expressing non-canonical imperatives2.2.1 Canonical and non-canonical imperatives as part of one paradigm; 2.2.2 Canonical versus non-canonical imperatives; 2.2.3 Overlap in forms of canonical and non-canonical imperatives; 2.2.4 Different forms for canonical and for each of the non-canonical imperatives; 2.3 Imperative and person in English; 2.3.1 The canonical imperative and its addressees; 2.3.2 Analytic non-canonical imperatives; 2.3.3 Additional options for third person commands; 2.3.4 Canonical and non-canonical imperatives in English: a summary |
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2.4 Person-specific meanings of imperatives2.5 Imperatives and their addressees: conclusions and generalizations; 3. How imperatives are special; 3.1 The phonology of imperatives; 3.2 Order of constituents; 3.3 Meaning and expression of verbal categories; 3.3.1 Imperative-specific meanings of particles and suffixes: some examples; 3.3.2 Imperative-specific overtones of person and number; 3.3.3 Imperative-specific overtones of aspect and tense; 3.3.4 Imperative-specific meanings of other categories; 3.4 Imperatives and other clause types; 3.5 Summary |
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4. Imperatives and other grammatical categories4.1 Imperatives and categories relating to addressee; 4.2 Imperatives and categories relating to verbal action; 4.2.1 Imperatives and aspect; 4.2.2 Imperatives and time; 4.2.3 Imperatives, distance in space, and directionality; 4.2.4 Imperatives and information source; 4.2.5 Imperatives, modalities, and reality status; 4.3 Imperatives, and the marking of verbal arguments; 4.4 Imperatives, transitivity, and verbal semantics; 4.4.1 Imperatives and transitivity classes; 4.4.2 Imperatives and valency-changing derivations |
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4.4.3 Imperatives, transitivity, and verb classes4.5 Imperatives and the form of the verb; 4.6 Summary; 5. 'Don't do it': a vista of negative imperatives; 5.1 Negating an imperative; 5.2 Negative imperatives and other grammatical categories; 5.2.1 Negative imperatives and categories relating to addressee; 5.2.2 Negative imperatives and categories relating to verbal action; 5.2.3 Negative imperatives and the marking of verbal arguments; 5.2.4 Negative imperatives, transitivity, and verb classes; 5.2.5 More prohibitives than imperatives?; 5.3 How prohibitives are special |
| Summary |
This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics. The author discusses the role imperatives and commands play in human cognition and how they are deployed in different cultures, and in doing so offers fresh insights on patterns of human interaction and communcation. Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or command strategies, in languages that do not have special i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Imperative.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Imperative
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Kontrastive Linguistik
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Imperativ
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Aufforderungssatz
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Gebiedende wijs.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191548925 |
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0191548928 |
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