20.490, Qs: Imperative Morphology

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Subject: 20.490, Qs: Imperative Morphology

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Date: 15-Feb-2009
From: Andrew Swearingen < andrew.swearingen at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: Imperative Morphology

 

	
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:59:54
From: Andrew Swearingen [andrew.swearingen at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Imperative Morphology

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I am currently a doctoral student writing on Romance language imperatives,
but have a broader, typological question that could have bearing on the
discussion.

Is anyone familiar with a language in the world that has no verb morphology
(or very little), but has a morphologically distinct form for the imperative?

Thanks,
Andrew Swearingen
University of Oxford 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology






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