Publications

Publication details [#65688]

Olmen, Daniël Van. 2019. A three-fold approach to the imperative's usage in English and Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics 139 : 146–162.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Imperatives serve less to gain concrete results, more to control discourse/interaction. The imperative is mainly employed as a pure directive and with pretty high effort. The English imperative is a bit more open to non-agentive verbs than the Dutch one. The Dutch imperative is more typically willful and implies higher effort. The speech act, the collostructional, and parametric methods replete each other.