Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative

Download or read book Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative written by Eric Potsdam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type. It argues that the imperative has largely regular syntactic behaviour within a conventional conception of English clause structure. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.