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The syntax of imperatives /
"The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new lingui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
140. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Syntax of Imperatives; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.0 Chapter overview; 1.1 Imperatives in generative grammar; 1.1.1 The imperative clause; 1.1.2 Earlier analyses; 1.2 Proposal; 1.2.1 The "light" performative hypothesis (LPH); 1.3 Preview of following chapters; 2 Imperatives across languages; 2.0 Chapter overview; 2.1 Part I: Confirmed generalizations; 2.1.1 The universality of the imperative clause; 2.1.2 Predicates excluded from the imperative clause; 2.1.3 The subject of the imperative clause vs. vocatives.
- 2.1.4 Optionality of the imperative subject2.2 Part II: Generalizations in need of review; 2.2.1 Imperative verb forms and morphological complexity; 2.2.2 Tense in imperative clauses and imperative verb forms; 2.2.3 Imperative clauses and generalized clause structure; 2.3 Part III: Different interpretations of the typological evidence; 2.3.1 The imperative as a dependent clause; 2.3.2 Beyond second person imperatives: hortatives; 2.3.2.1 Imperative-hortative paradigms; 2.3.2.2 Are hortatives a type of imperative?; 2.4 Part IV: Further similarities/differences in imperatives-hortatives.
- 2.4.1 A markedness hierarchy in imperative-hortative paradigms2.4.2 A person-markedness reversal; 2.5 Part V: The semantics of imperatives in root clauses; 2.5.1 Paradigmatic choices subdividing imperative meaning; 2.5.2 What counts as an indirect speech act for imperatives?; 2.5.3 Core imperative meaning vs. minor sentence types; 2.6 Part VI: The negation of imperative clauses; 2.6.1 The negative imperative puzzle: the ban on true negative imperatives; 2.6.2 New typological data on the negation of imperative clauses; 2.6.3 Sources for split affirmative-negative paradigms.
- 2.6.4 An alternative morphological account2.7 Conclusion; 3 Foundations for an analysis of the imperative clause; 3.0 Chapter overview; 3.1 The minimalist program; 3.1.1 Toward a minimalist analysis of the imperative clause; 3.1.2 The SMT and the revised empirical base; 3.2 Encoding the context of utterance in syntax; 3.2.1 Sigurðsson (2004); 3.2.1.1 Discussion; 3.2.2 Bianchi (2003); 3.2.2.1 Discussion; 3.3 Supporting phenomena for representing indexicality in syntax; 3.3.1 Indexical shift; 3.3.1.1 Indexicals; 3.3.1.2 Monsters; 3.3.1.3 Variation in indexical shift.
- 3.3.1.4 What dependent clauses feature a reported context?3.3.1.5 Summary; 3.3.2 Logophoricity; 3.3.2.1 Reported speech pronouns in African languages; 3.3.2.2 What clauses allow logophoric pronouns?; 3.3.2.3 The meaning of logophoric pronouns; 3.3.2.4 Comparison between indexical shift and logophoricity; 3.3.2.5 Summary; 3.3.3 Conjunct-disjunct person-marking systems; 3.3.3.1 Person interpretation relative to the speech act; 3.3.3.2 On the history of the term; 3.3.3.3 Logophoric uses; 3.3.3.4 On the meaning of conjunct-disjunct systems.