The Yor[ugrave]bá imperative∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18970294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L O Adewole (Obafemi Awolowo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-112 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Languages and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-416X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09544169108717733 |
| OpenAlex | W2103893544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
We have outlined some of the characteristics of the Yoruba imperative. Dahl (1985: 26) has written that the imperative ‘ apparently found in all or almost all languages’, but his claim that the imperative ‘tends to behave surprisingly alike in them all’ is debatable. For instance, Keenan and Comrie (1977) have established that all languages have relative clauses in which the subject of the relative clause is related to the noun, but they found that the position of relativisation permitted by individual languages in the ‘Accessibility Hierarchy’ differs. To confirm the truth of Dahl's claim, the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the imperatives of more languages need to be studied in more detail
Combinatorics · Ergative case · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Political science · Relative clause · Transitive relation · Yoruba · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |