The Morphosyntax of Imperatives

ISBN: 9780198733270 出版年：2015 页码：295 Isac, Daniela Oxford University Press

This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar. The analysis, based on data from a wide range of languages, accounts for patterns in the interaction of imperative mood with phenomena like negation, restrictions on grammatical subjects, and the possibility of embedding imperative clauses.