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Imperative Construction

Name Imperative Construction (IMP)
Semantic function of cxn Command, request or invitation to an ADDRESSEE to carry out an ACTION.
Form note Falling intonation or <?>
Usage conditions The person to whom the command is addressed must be identifiable from the context; rarely it can be expressed by a subject.
Slots 1 2
Semantic role of slots ADDRESSEE ACTION
Syntactic function Subj PRED
Syntactic form Vbase
Example Let us look at this in detail. Read this.
General cxn-type Sentence-type Construction
Literature Herbst & Schüller (2008), Herbst & Hoffmann (2023)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F