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This chapter is about similarities and differences in the way languages express orders, requests and exhortations. It crucially employs a so-called ‘semantic map’. The concept of the semantic map will be presented in section 2.1. Section 2.2 sketches some issues in the study of Imperatives and Imperative-like constructions. In section 2.3 a semantic map is proposed that yields some insights in the study of Imperatives and Imperative-like structures.
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van der Auwera, J., Dobrushina, N., Goussev, V. (2003). A Semantic Map for Imperative-Hortatives . In: Willems, D., Defrancq, B., Colleman, T., Noël, D. (eds) Contrastive Analysis in Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524637_3
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