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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.808kg ISBN: 9780199665556ISBN 10: 0199665559 Pages: 522 Publication Date: 11 October 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Imperatives and Commands: Setting the Scene 2: Imperatives Worldwide 3: How Imperatives are Special 4: Imperatives and Other Grammatical Categories 5: 'Don't do it': a vista of negative imperatives 6: Imperatives and Their Meanings 7: Imperatives Which do not Command 8: Imperatives in Disguise 9: Imperatives we Live by 10: Where do Imperatives Come From? 11: Imperatives in Contact 12: The Ubiquitous Imperative Appendix Glossary of Terms References Index of Authors Index of Languages, Linguistic Families, and Areas Index of SubjectsReviewsImperatives and Commands offers a wealth of empirical data and covers almost every relevant topic imaginable. Unlike any article or book before, it describes the crosslinguistic variation in imperatives and alternative directive strategies in a clear and thorough way. ... [It] constitutes a reference work for field workers, who will welcome the appended checklist of what kind of features need to be described, analysed, and illustrated (p. 418), and for anyone interested in imperatives and directives. Researchers will also enjoy the extensive author, language, and subject indexes and the vast bibliography. Linguistic Typology Imperatives and Commands offers a wealth of empirical data and covers almost every relevant topic imaginable. Unlike any article or book before, it describes the crosslinguistic variation in imperatives and alternative directive strategies in a clear and thorough way. ... [It] constitutes a reference work for field workers, who will welcome the appended checklist of what kind of features need to be described, analysed, and illustrated (p. 418), and for anyone interested in imperatives and directives. Researchers will also enjoy the extensive author, language, and subject indexes and the vast bibliography. * Linguistic Typology * The book is very well equipped ... The main contribution of Aikhenvald's book ... is its descriptive side. The impressive overview it provides of the crosslinguistic variation and tendencies pertaining to imperatives and commands makes it a must for anyone interested in either of these two subjects. So, if you are interested, read Aikhenvald's book! * Kasper Boye, Functions of Language * The book is very well equipped ... The main contribution of Aikhenvald's book ... is its descriptive side. The impressive overview it provides of the crosslinguistic variation and tendencies pertaining to imperatives and commands makes it a must for anyone interested in either of these two subjects. So, if you are interested, read Aikhenvald's book! Kasper Boye, Functions of Language Imperatives and Commands offers a wealth of empirical data and covers almost every relevant topic imaginable. Unlike any article or book before, it describes the crosslinguistic variation in imperatives and alternative directive strategies in a clear and thorough way. ... [It] constitutes a reference work for field workers, who will welcome the appended checklist of what kind of features need to be described, analysed, and illustrated (p. 418), and for anyone interested in imperatives and directives. Researchers will also enjoy the extensive author, language, and subject indexes and the vast bibliography. Linguistic Typology Author InformationAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003, paperback 2006), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her grammar, The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, was published by OUP in 2008, paperback 2010. Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002, paperback 2010) and Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which, The Semantics of Clause Linking, appeared in 2009. Her latest book, Languages of the Amazon, was published in 2012 by OUP. 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