This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understandingof their the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, and offers fresh insights on the patterns of human interaction and cognition associated with them. INDICE: 1: Setting the Scene; 2: Imperatives Worldwide; 3: How Imperatives are Special; 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 ofAuthors; Index of Languages, Linguistic Families, and Areas; Index of Subjects
- ISBN: 978-0-19-920790-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 520
- Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés