Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema: 103 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027233675 ISBN 13: 9789027233677

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

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 imperatives; clitic behavior; restrictions on topicalization; word order; null arguments; negative imperatives; and imperatives in embedded clauses. The volume has a substantial introduction, sketching the results of earlier generative work on the topic (most of it scattered across disparate outlets), the issues left open by this earlier work, and the contribution to further insight and understanding made by the book's articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027233675
• ISBN 13: 9789027233677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Wurff Wim Van Der