Overview

This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar. Daniela Isac argues that the specificity of imperative clauses cannot be the result of a unique imperative Force feature; instead, the `type' of imperative clauses can be traced back to a plurality of finer grained features, such as Modality and phi-features, hosted by the Mod, Infl, and Speech Event heads, among others. The data are drawn from a wide range of languages including various Romance, Slavic, and Germanic languages, as well as Finnish and Inuktitut. The analysis accounts for recurrent patterns in the interaction of imperative mood with phenomena like negation, restrictions on grammatical subjects, and the possibility of embedding imperative clauses. The approach, which focuses exclusively on morphosyntactic rather than semantic features, is potentially transferable to the analysis of other clause types, such as exclamatives, interrogatives, and declaratives.

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Author:   Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   59
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780198733263

ISBN 10:   0198733267
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   20 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction and aims 2: Descriptive properties of imperatives 3: Previous analyses 4: Why a new analysis? 5: Modality 6: The Speaker 7: The Addressee 8: True imperatives 9: Surrogative imperatives: subjunctives 10: Surrogate imperatives: infinitives 11: Embeddedness 12: Conclusions

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Daniela Isac is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University, where she has been teaching since receiving her PhD in 2000 from the University of Bucharest. Her interests include syntactic theory, the syntax-semantics interface, and the foundations of linguistics as cognitive science. She is the co-author, with Charles Reiss, of i-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (OUP, 2008; 2nd edition 2013).

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