The English Imperative (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)

by Eirlys Davies

Book Overview

In recent work the imperative seems to have attracted much less attention than the interrogative, perhaps because it appears to be a rather simple structure, easily accounted for in a page or two in manuals of English grammar, and probably also because in so many respects it seems to be a rather awkward exception to otherwise powerful generalisations. This has meant that quite general analyses sometimes find it necessary to relegate the imperative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138989150
• ISBN13: 9781138989153
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"