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1 online resource (viii, 352 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ;
v. 103
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 103.
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Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Imperative clauses in generative grammar: An introduction; On the periphery of imperative and declarative clauses in Dutch and German; Featuring the subject in Dutch imperatives; Clitic climbing in Spanish imperatives; Topics in imperatives; Embedded imperatives; How to say no and don't: Negative imperatives in Romance and Germanic; Analysing word order in the English imperative; On participial imperatives; 'Inverted' imperatives. |
Summary |
This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further significant discussion of data from other Germanic and Romance languages. The phenomena addressed (in several cases in more than one article, leading to some lively debate about contentious issues) include the following: the nature and interpretation of imperative subjects; the properties of participial i. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Imperative.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Imperative. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses. |
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Generative grammar.
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Generative grammar. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Beukema, F. H. (Frits H.)
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Wurff, Wim van der.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Imperative clauses in generative grammar. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007 (DLC) 2007003848 |
ISBN |
9789027292315 (electronic book) |
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9027292310 (electronic book) |
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9027233675 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027233677 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1282152955 |
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9781282152953 |
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9789027233677 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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