Pragmatical similarity between 1p imperative and indicative?

[Cameron, Richard]

Right.

In Spanish, I see this referred to as the Exhortative.

First person plural (nosotros/nosotras) can take two forms, I believe:

1) Vamos a comer (Lit. We are going to eat = Let's eat) with the verb,
'ir' (Vamos)in the indicative.

OR

Comamos. (Lit: We eat) with the verb in the present subjunctive.

I don't know of commands like this for first person singular.

- Richard Cameron

On Wed, May 26, 2010 8:45 am, Mark P. Line wrote:
> Let's think about that for a minute....
>
> -- Mark
>
> Mark P. Line
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> A. Katz wrote:
>> In languages that I am familiar with, there is no first person
>> imperative.
>> The imperative is marked as second person, and even when someone
>> commands
>> himself to do something, he is addressing himself in second person, as
>> if
>> he were someone else.
>>
>>     --Aya Katz
>>
>> http://hubpages.com/profile/Aya+Katz
>>
>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Henrik Rosenkvist wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> In a paper I am working with I argue that first person imperatives are
>>> (pragmatically) quite similar to indicatives, since a request aimed at
>>> oneself rarely is denied. However, I have no references to lean on
>>> here,
>>> and
>>> therefore I wonder: do you agree about the similarity, and has anyone
>>> written
>>> about this?
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> Henrik
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henrik Rosenkvist
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>>>
>>> Henrik Rosenkvist
>>> Assistant Professor, Scandinavian Languages
>>> Dept. of Languages and Literature
>>> Lund University
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>>> Tel.: +46 46 222 87 04
>>> E-mail: Henrik.Rosenkvist at nordlund.lu.se
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> -- Mark
>
> Mark P. Line
> Bartlesville, OK
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