A syntactic analysis of interpretive restrictions on imperative, promissive, and exhortative subjects

This paper investigates the interpretive restrictions on the subjects of imperative, promissive, and exhortative sentences—what we call the "jussive" clause types. It argues that the data cannot be explained by a theory that appeals only to semantic and pragmatic factors, and that an accou...

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Published in:	Natural language and linguistic theory Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 1231 - 1274
Main Authors:	Zanuttini, Raffaella, Pak, Miok, Portner, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer 01.11.2012 Springer Netherlands Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Agreement Agreements Clauses Descriptive studies and applied theories Grammar Grammatical agreement Grammatical clauses Imperative sentences Language Licenses Licensing Linguistics Natural Language Processing (NLP) Noun phrases Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Pronouns Restrictions Semantic analysis Semantics Semantics and pragmatics Social Sciences Syntactic Analysis Syntactic Structures Syntactics Syntax Syntax Pragmatics Interface Syntax Semantics Relationship Theoretical linguistics Theory New York United States > US Chicago Illinois Exhortatives Person features Italian Imperatives Agree Bound pronouns To-do list Korean Sentence final particles Promissives Clause types Speech acts Jussive head Agreement English Bhojpuri Jussives Modals Subjects Directive force Subject predicate Syntactic analysis Grammatical agreement Bound pronoun Speech act Semantics Pragmatics Syntax
ISSN:	0167-806X, 1573-0859
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