Syntactic issues in the English imperative /

Potsdam, Eric, 1964-

Syntactic issues in the English imperative / Eric Potsdam. - x, 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Routledge library edition. Syntax ; volume 20 .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (University of California, Santa Cruz), 1996. First published in 1998 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type. It argues that the imperative has largely regular syntactic behaviour within a conventional conception of English clause structure. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.




English language--Imperative.
English language--Syntax.

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