Interpreting Imperatives
Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of information growth—neither of wh...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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Σειρά: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
88 |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. How to Handle Imperatives in Semantics
- 3. Imperatives as Graded Modals
- 4. From Modalized Propositions to Speech Acts
- 5. Possibility Readings
- Embedding Imperatives
- References
- Index.