Negation-Licensed Commands: The Imperative Operator Outside Canonical Imperative Clauses
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.a968892
Abstract: Most formal research on the imperative sentence type has focused on canonical imperatives, forms like Leave!, which are often characterized across languages by properties such as bare verbal morphology and omission of the subject. Noncanonical… read more here.
Keywords: operator; canonical imperatives; licensed commands; speech act ... See more keywords