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Imperatives and Directive Strategies
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold
[Studies in Language Companion Series 184] 2017
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Imperatives and directive strategies from a functional-typological perspective

An introduction

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Article outline
  • 1.Preliminaries
  • 2.Imperatives
    • 2.1Cross-linguistic characterization
    • 2.2Meaning
    • 2.3Uses
    • 2.4Interaction with other grammatical categories
    • 2.5Contributions to this volume
  • 3.Directive strategies
    • 3.1Forms
      • 3.1.1Sentence types
      • 3.1.2Non-finite verbal forms
      • 3.1.3Non-verbal forms
      • 3.1.4Other forms of interest
      • 3.1.5Conclusion
    • 3.2Uses
    • 3.3Imperatives versus other directive strategies
    • 3.4Contributions to this volume
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 11 April 2017
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