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"Imperative sentences usually occur in speech acts such as orders, requests, and pleas. However, they are also used to give advice, and to grant permission, and are sometimes found in advertisements, good wishes and conditional constructions. Yet, the relationship between the form of imperatives, and the wide range of speech acts in which they occur, remains unclear, as do the ways in which semantic theory should handle imperatives. This book is the first to look systematically at both the data and the theory. The first part discusses data from a large set of languages, including many outside the Indo-European family, and analyses in detail the range of uses to which imperatives are put, paying particular attention to controversial cases. This provides the empirical background for the second part, where the authors offer an accessible, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of the major theoretical accounts of imperative semantics and pragmatics"--

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Impératif (Linguistique) --- Imperative. --- Impératif (Linguistique)

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Hebrew language --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Imperative. --- Tense. --- Conditionals. --- Syntax. --- Impératif --- Temps --- Conditionnel --- Syntaxe --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Impératif --- Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Conditionals --- Imperative --- Syntax --- Tense --- Languages

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Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of information growth neither of which are easily applied to imperatives. This book puts forward a fresh perspective. It analyzes imperatives in terms of modalized propositions, and identifies an additional, presuppositional, meaning component that makes an assertive interpretation inappropriate. The author shows how these two elements can help explain the varied effects imperatives have, depending on their usage context. Imperatives have been viewed as elusive components of language because they have a range of functions that makes them difficult to unify theoretically. This fresh view of the semantics-pragmatics interface allows for a uniform semantic analysis while accounting for the pragmatic versatility of imperatives.  

Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- semantiek --- taalfilosofie --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Impératif (Linguistique) --- Imperative --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVHUMAI SPRINGER-B --- Language and languages --- Imperative. --- Clauses.

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English language --- Grammar --- Anglais (Langue) --- Mood --- Imperative --- Syntax --- Syntaxe --- Anglais (langue) --- Impératif (linguistique) --- Mood. --- Imperative. --- Syntax. --- 802.0-56 --- -English language --- -Germanic languages --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- -Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- -802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Jussive --- Verb --- Germanic languages --- English language - Mood --- English language - Imperative --- English language - Syntax --- Impératif (linguistique)