When terminology matters: The imperative as a comparative concept

@article{Jary2016WhenTM,
  title={When terminology matters: The imperative as a comparative concept},
  author={Mark Jary and Mikhail Kissine},
  journal={Linguistics},
  year={2016},
  volume={54},
  pages={119 - 148},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147583469}
}
Abstract The imperative should be thought of as a comparative concept, defined as a sentence type whose only prototypical function is the performance of the whole range of directive speech acts. Furthermore, for a non-second-person form to count as an imperative it must be homogeneous with the second-person form, thereby allowing true imperative paradigms to be distinguished from those that recruit alternative structures. This definition of the imperative sentence type allows more accurate… 
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