The Syntax of Imperatives - Couverture rigide

Alcázar, Asier; Saltarelli, Mario

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107005809 ISBN 13 : 9781107005808

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new linguistic theory of imperatives, arguing that categories of the speech act, specifically Speaker and Addressee, are conceptually necessary for an adequate syntactic account. The book offers compelling empirical and descriptive evidence by surveying new typological data in critical assessment of competing hypotheses towards an indexical syntax of human language. An engaging read for students and researchers interested in linguistics, philosophy and the syntax of language.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Asier Alcázar is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri. His research interests include generative syntax and its interfaces with semantics and morphology, corpus linguistics and typology.

Mario Saltarelli is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. He specialises in general linguistics and researches the synchronic and diachronic morphology-phonology and syntax-semantics interface.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107005809
• ISBN 13: 9781107005808
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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