Imperatives and Commands (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

by Alexandra Y . Aikhenvald (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $197.38

  This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, and offers fresh insights on the patterns of human interaction and cognition associated with them.