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Embedded imperatives

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Wim van der Wurff

Summary, in English

Embedded imperatives are found in Old Scandinavian, but not in any of its modern descendants, i.e. Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian or Swedish. This paper aims to uncover the structural prerequisites for embedded imperatives to be possible in a language. Assuming a feature driven version of the minimalist program, it is shown that embedded imperatives are possible under the specific structural requirement that the non-finite verb is in a position lower than the object, i.e. in a kind of partial OV-structure that I will call pseudo-OV, differing from ordinary OV in having the tensed verb before the object, both in main and embedded clauses. A number of predictions follow which are indeed fulfilled, such as the obligatory presence of the second person subject, the position of the imperative verb in front of the object, and the fact that the kinds of objects found in embedded imperatives are the ones that also turn up in clauses with pseudo-OV in Old Scandinavian.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

181-203

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar

Volym

103

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Status

Published

Projekt

  • TEJS

Forskningsgrupp

  • GRIMM

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0166-0829
  • ISBN: 9789027233677