Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon. Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology [Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 8]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxiv + 328 pp. ISBN 9780198803225 (hb)

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Chia-Jung Pan | Beijing Normal University

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Summary of contents
3.Critical evaluation
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Sadock, J. M., & Zwicky, A. M. (1985). Speech act distinctions in syntax. In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure (pp. 155–196). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Xrakovskij, V. S. (Ed.). (2001). Typology of Imperative Constructions. München: Lincom Europa.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon. Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology [Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 8]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxiv + 328 pp. ISBN 9780198803225 (hb)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon. Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology [Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 8]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxiv + 328 pp. ISBN 9780198803225 (hb)