Publications

Publication details [#53309]

Fortuin, E. 2010. Explicit second-person subjects in Russian imperatives: semantics, word order, and a comparison with English. Linguistics 48 (2) : 431–486.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | imperative1 | information structure | pragmatic function | word order

Language as a subject

English | Russian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This comparative study reveals differences in the pragmatic functions of the subject of the imperative in Russian and English. It is argued that this discrepancy may be partially due to the fact that English has a relatively formal word order, whilst Russian word order is mainly defined by information structure