TY - BOOK AU - Alcázar,Asier AU - Saltarelli,Mario TI - The syntax of imperatives T2 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics SN - 9780511794391 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015) N2 - 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 linguistic theory of imperatives, arguing that categories of the speech act, specifically Speaker and Addressee, are conceptually necessary for an adequate syntactic account. The book offers compelling empirical and descriptive evidence by surveying new typological data in critical assessment of competing hypotheses towards an indexical syntax of human language. An engaging read for students and researchers interested in linguistics, philosophy and the syntax of language UR - https://eresourcesptsl.ukm.remotexs.co/user/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794391 ER -