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Imperatives and commands /
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 imp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.