TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alcázar,Asier
AU  - Saltarelli,Mario
TI  - The syntax of imperatives
T2  - Cambridge studies in linguistics
SN  - 9780511794391 (ebook)
AV  - P281 .A44 2014
U1  - 415/.6 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Imperative
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Grammars
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Introduction -- Imperatives across languages -- Foundations for an analysis of the imperative clause -- The syntax of imperative clauses : a performative hypothesis -- Basque allocutive agreement -- Conclusion
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://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794391
ER  -