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Typology of Imperative Constructions

VICTOR S. XRAKOVSKIJ (ED.)
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Linguistic Research, Saint-Petersburg

The present volume has been prepared by the Language Typology Workshop
of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistic Research.
        The book continues the earlier studies of the Workshop
addressing
grammatical categories of the verb linked to the semantic and syntactic
structure of the sentence: (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Causative
Constructions, Nauka: Leningrad, 1969; (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology
of Passive Constructions, Nauka: Leningrad, 1974; (ed. V.P. Nedjalkov)
Typology of Resultative Constructions, Amsterdam, 1988; (ed. V.S.
Xrakovskij) Typology of Iterative Constructions, LINCOM EUROPA, Munchen,
1997; etc.
        The monograph focuses on imperative sentences and verb forms
used in
them. The main objective of this work is, by proceeding from the
universal  definition of the imperative concept, to describe the
imperative sentences from the angle of language typology.
        The volume consists of three parts. Part 1 contains two
chapters:
Chapter 1, outlining the theoretical concept of the research, and
Chapter 2, presenting a questionnaire on imperative sentences and
imperative verb forms. Part 2 contains 23 chapters on imperative
sentences in structurally different languages: Aleut, Armenian, Bamana,
Cambodian, English, Eskimo, Ewe, French, German, Gypsy, Hausa,  Hebrew,
Indonesian, Japanese, Kerek, Klamath, Maori, Mongol, Nivkh, Tagalog,
Turkic languages, Vietnamese, and Javanese. These 23 chapters are
grouped into five sections in consistence with five types of languages
that are  singled out basing on two major attributes: (i) presence or
absence of a specific imperative person/number paradigm, and (ii)
homogeneity or non-homogeneity of the forms in the imperative paradigm.
Part 3 provides an alternative interpretation of the imperative paradigm
that differs from the theory developed in the preceding chapters both in
its general approach and in specific aspects of analysis.
        The contributors to the volume are: researchers from Saint
Petersburg
Institute of Linguistic Research (Agus Salim, T. G. Akimova, L. A.
Biriulin, N. B. Vaxtin, A. P. Volodin, E. V. Golovko, E. Yu. Gruzdeva,
I. B. Dolinina, N. A. Kozintseva, E. E. Kordi, D. M. Nasilov, A. Yu.
Rusakov, M. A. Smirnova, N. M. Spartar, V. A. Stegnij, V. S.
Xrakovskij), Oriental Faculty of the Saint Petersburg State University
(I. S. Bystrov, N. A. Dobronravin, E. A. Kuzmenkov, L. V. Malygina, A.
K. Ogloblin, G. E. Rachkov), as well as linguists from other research
institutions of Russia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam: X. F. Isxakova, and M.
S. Polinskaja (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of
Sciences), V. M. Alpatov (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian
Academy of Sciences), M. B. Bergelson (Institute of the Russian Language
of the Russian Academy of Sciences),  Kofi  O. Agbodjo and V. P.
Litvinov (Pyatigorsk Pedagogical Institute), S. M. Kibardina (Vologda
Pedagogical Institute), Sh. S. Safarov (Samarkand Pedagogical
Institute), and N. V. Stankevich (Hanoi University).

The book is supplied with an extensive bibliography.

ISBN 389586 542 7.
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