1st Edition
The English Imperative (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
By Eirlys Davies
Copyright 2014
300 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
In recent work the imperative seems to have attracted much less attention than the interrogative, perhaps because it appears to be a rather simple structure, easily accounted for in a page or two in manuals of English grammar, and probably also because in so many respects it seems to be a rather awkward exception to otherwise powerful generalisations. This has meant that quite general analyses... Read more
1. A Syntactic Characterisation of the Imperative 2. Meaning and Use 3. Negation and Emphasis 4. The Imperative Verb Phrase 5. Imperative Subjects 6. The Imperative in some Co-ordinate Constructions 7. Some Other Imperative-Like Constructions 8. The Let-Construction
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Eirlys Davies
