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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufmann, Magdalena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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