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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

structure of imperative sentances

0I'm taking a Linguistics class in college, and I'm having a lot of trouble with this one subject, and the Professor isn't any help.02br
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00We're talking about the hypotheses about the structure of imperative sentances- with 02br
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00VP hypothesis- imperative sentaces arent sentances, but VPs lacking a subject02br
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00Sentential hypothesis- imperative sentances contain a phonologically null subject that is syntactically second person02br
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00I don't understand how you would go about testing these hypotheses, which I probably will have to do on a quiz.02br
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00Any help would be great.0-
  

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0The only cogent point I can think of is that we occasionally do include the Subject (2nd person) in imperative utterances:02br 02br 01i 00You get out of here, now! 02i 0-

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  • 0The only cogent point I can think of is that we occasionally do include the Subject (2nd person) in imperative utterances:02br 02br 01i 00You get out of here, now!
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0The only cogent point I can think of is that we occasionally do include the Subject (2nd person) in imperative utterances:02br
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01i00You get out of here, now! You just get on your horse and ride out of town.02i0-
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0 The evidence that imperatives are not VP's lacking a subject (but contain a null subject) comes from imperatives with reflexive pronouns. Here's how the argument goes.02br
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01i00yourself02i00 is only used in a clause whose subject is 01i00you02i00:02br
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01i00You are washing yourself.02br
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