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Publication details [#3927]
Green, Georgia M. 1973. How to get people to do things with words: The question of whimperatives. In Shuy, Roger W., ed. Some new directions in linguistics. Georgetown University Press. pp. 51–81.
Annotation
A discussion of four approaches to the problem of whimperatives, i.e. the problem of how to account for the fact that some sentences with the form of a question (e.g. 'Will you close the door please?') can be interpreted as having the force of an imperative.