1st Edition

Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative

By C. T. Onions Copyright 1998
    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type. It argues that the imperative has largely regular syntactic behaviour within a conventional conception of English clause structure. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

    Preface;  Acknowledgments;  Introduction;  1. Clausal Syntax  2. Verb Raising  3. Imperative Subjects  4. Do(n’t) in Imperatives  5. The Phrase Structure of Imperatives  6. Do Not in Imperatives;  References;  Index

    Biography

    Eric Potsdam