Corpora:Imperatives

[miki]

  Dear corpus linguists

I am a graduate student majoring linguistics in Japan.  Right now I am
studying

the categorization of the meanings of imperatives such as command, demand,

suggestion, advice, wish etc.  I don't know how to pick up only imperative

sentences from the corpora.  Both of BNC and Bank of English are available

now.  If someone knows the methodology of categorization of the imperatives

in a sociolinguistic or cognitive linguistic way,  please let me know about
it.


     Takayuki Miki   ( Hyogo University of Teacher Education )

      Mariko Udo ( Tutorial Professor )