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Publication details [#4870]

Holmberg, Anders. 1979. On whimperatives and related questions. Journal of Linguistics 15 (2) : 225–244.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

question | requesting | wh-imperative

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

H. argues that e.g. 'Can you shut the door?', a so called whimperative, is unambiguously a question and that its request use is a matter of pragmatics.