Publications

Publication details [#27844]

Clark, Billy. 1993. Relevance and "pseudo-imperatives". Linguistics and Philosophy 16 (1) : 79–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

imperative1 | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper deals with the semantic analysis of some constructions that have been called pseudo-imperatives. The proposed analysis explains their behavior without the nedd for ad hoc syntactic or semantic assumptions.