Syntax of Imperatives in English and Geramic
Subtitle: Word Order Variation in the Minimalist Framework
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780333993422
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Historical & comparative linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Germanic & Scandinavian languages; Language; Grammar; Linguistics; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Semantics; English language; Germanic; Germanic languages; Grammar, Comparative; Imperative
First sentence: English imperative clauses are characterized by a cluster of syntactic properties which have long presented a puzzle for linguistic theories like the generative framework (Chomsky 1957 to 1998).