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<DIV> <SPAN lang=EN-US>Dear, list members</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am a graduate student majoring
linguistics in Japan.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>I have just started my study for MA thesis.
The title of</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>the thesis is ‘A study of Emphatic
Imperatives.’<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>like</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>‘ Do be quiet.’<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will find them out from some
corpus</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>and analyze them on a discourse
level.</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>1)<FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>Do you know how to pick up only imperative
sentences</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>from the corpus
data?</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>2)<FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>Are there any methods to search sentences
which </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>begin
with 'do + bare form of verbs'?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>3)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Are there any corpus which include only imperative</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>sentences?</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>3)<FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>Do you know some books or thesis about
emphatic</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>Imperatives?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Takayuki Miki ( Hyogo Uni. of<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Teacher Education)</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tutorial Professor is Ms. Mariko
Udo.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:tmiki@mxw.mesh.ne.jp">tmiki@mxw.mesh.ne.jp</A></SPAN></P>
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