Title: | Pragmatic Effects of the Overt Subject in Romanian Conditional Imperatives |
Author: | Mihaela Gheorghe |
Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXIII (1-2), Section Speech Acts and More..., p. 167-182 Speech Acts across Time and Space / Actes de language à travers le temps et l’espace Edited by Andra Vasilescu and Cameron Taylor |
p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
Place: | București |
Year: | 2018 |
Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to give a brief synopsis of the coordinate constructions [imperative + declarative] in Romanian, focusing on the pragmatic effects of the overt subject in Romanian. In configurations of the type: (i) Open the window and I’ll kill you, (ii) Open the window or I’ll kill you, and (iii) Open the window and you’ll catch a cold, in which the imperative clause is prototypically subjectless (even in non-pro-drop languages), the occurrence of an overt subject should be pragmatically motivated. Confronting the current description of the conditional imperatives to the Romanian data, the paper aims to sketch an inventory of the overt subjects that are allowed in each syntactic type, in an attempt to describe the consequences of subject lexicalization upon the pragmatic function of the imperative. This would set the ground for a more in depth investigation concerning the connections between syntactic and semantic-pragmatic restrictions upon the occurrence of the overt subject in the imperative clause. |
Key words: | conditional imperatives, Romanian, overt subject, pragmatic effects |
Language: | English |
Links: | pdf html |
Citations to this publication: 1
0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 61, 2018). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2018 | LR, LXVIII (1), 3-159 | 2019 |
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6 | Martin Maiden | On Romanian Imperatives | Phil. Jass., II (1), 47-59 | 2006 | pdf html |
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