A Study of Some Features of the Imperative in Middle Indo-Aryan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9275196 |
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| Authors | L A Schwarzschild (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 92-98 |
| Publication date | 1965-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00124189 |
| OpenAlex | W2105329887 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The imperative occupies A unique position in the conjugation system. In its real function it implies the presence of a speaker issuing a command to one or more listeners, or making an order referring to a third person or persons. This means that the conjugation tends to be defective. Because of its immediate association with the speaker the imperative is generally linked with the present tense, but through its meaning it is also associated with the future tense. The uncertainty of whether a command will be carried out links the imperative with the subjunctive, while the idea of volition brings it close to the optative. These special features and varying associations make the history of the imperative extremely complex in Middle Indo-Aryan as in other languages. An attempt is made here to study two aspects of this history: the use of the subject pronoun with the imperative, and the distribution of the forms of the second person singular of the imperative. Other features of the imperative, in particular its relation to the passive, will be discussed later
Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Relation (database) · Subject (documents) · Volition (linguistics) · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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