• a syntactic analysis of interpretive restrictions on imperative, promissive, and exhortative subjects

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    • تاریخ ارائه: 1392/03/01
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    this paper investigates the interpretive restrictions on the subjects of imperative, promissive, and exhortative sentences—what we call the “jussive” clause types. it argues that the data cannot be explained by a theory that appeals only to semantic and pragmatic factors, and that an account crucially involving syntax is required. we propose that jussive clauses contain a functional head that bears a person feature. this head is an operator that, when in a sufficiently local configuration, binds the subject and enters an agreement relation with it. the restrictions in person features exhibited by the subjects are a consequence of this agreement relation. moreover, we show that the syntactic structures produced by our analysis are compatible with a compositional semantics that yields the correct interpretation for imperatives and other jussives.

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