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Publication details [#4488]

Haverkate, Henk. 1976. Pragmatic and linguistic aspects of the prepositional infinitive in Spanish. Lingua 40 (2-3) : 223–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | infinitive clause

Language as a subject

Spanish

Journal WWW

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Annotation

It is argued that prepositional infinitive constructions with imperative force such as 'Ia trabajar!' ('Go to work') belong to the class of impositive speech acts, a subclass of directive speech acts, and that their force is more emphatic than that of the normal imperative.