Commands : a cross-linguistic typology / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon.

This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse languages on the basis of extensive fieldwork and in a way...

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Other Authors: Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna), Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Explorations in linguistic typology ; v. 8.
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