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The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives
Author | : Chung-hye Han |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0815337876 |
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The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.
The Syntax of Imperatives
Author | : Asier Alcázar,Mario Saltarelli |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107005808 |
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The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.
Imperatives and Directive Strategies
Author | : Daniël Van Olmen,Simone Heinold |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027265937 |
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Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and other directive strategies?”. This volume takes a broadly functional-typological perspective and contributes to the literature in several respects. It presents new data from a variety of languages, some of which have not been studied in depth before. It exemplifies the benefits of traditional methodologies as well as the potential of more innovative ones. In addition, the volume sheds new light on the imperative as a typological notion, its meaning and uses and its interaction with other grammatical categories. It also offers new insights into the relation between different directive strategies within and across languages and into the (dis)similarities between equivalent directive strategies in a language family.
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar
Author | : Wim van der Wurff |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2007-07-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027292315 |
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This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further significant discussion of data from other Germanic and Romance languages. The phenomena addressed (in several cases in more than one article, leading to some lively debate about contentious issues) include the following: the nature and interpretation of imperative subjects; the properties of participial imperatives; clitic behavior; restrictions on topicalization; word order; null arguments; negative imperatives; and imperatives in embedded clauses. The volume has a substantial introduction, sketching the results of earlier generative work on the topic (most of it scattered across disparate outlets), the issues left open by this earlier work, and the contribution to further insight and understanding made by the book's articles.
Wh exclamatives Imperatives and Wh questions
Author | : Simone Guesser,Ani Marchesan,Paulo Medeiros Junior |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111183176 |
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Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system. Throughout these years, important contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, especially on wh-interrogative sentences, focalization, topicalization and relative clauses. As for exclamative and imperative sentences, however, there is a considerable research gap in all grammatical levels. Regarding interrogatives, semantic and prosodic studies are still lacking (as well as research on the acquisition and processing of these constructions). This collected volume fills some of those gaps, gathering studies on wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese which approach syntactical, semantical and prosodic aspects of these constructions through a rich and unregistered set of data. They also deliver novel acquisition and diachronic data that will further both the comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and the ongoing discussions on left periphery phenomena.
Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar
Author | : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027255778 |
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Explores the interaction of grammar with the factors reducing complexity. This book aims to bring about further understanding of the interfaces of the grammar in a broader biolinguistic sense. It anchors the formal properties of grammar at the interfaces between language and biology, language and experience, bringing about language acquisition.
The Syntax of Imperatives in English and Germanic
Author | : L. Rupp |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002-12-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780230505179 |
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This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme.
Imperatives
Author | : Mark Jary,Mikhail Kissine |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107012349 |
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An engaging overview of imperatives and a close examination of how different theoretical traditions have tried to explain them.