Lessons from Slovenian imperatives
Adrian Stegovec
January 2025 

Slovenian is unique among Slavic languages in allowing imperatives to occur as embedded clauses. This is used as a backdrop for an examination of issues concerning imperative meaning, use, and the relationship between imperative forms and functions. The main takeaways are that Slovenian embedded imperatives are true imperatives and that clauses with subjects beyond second person and inclusive first person can be semantically and functionally equivalent to imperatives.

Format:	[ pdf ]
Reference:	lingbuzz/008741 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	To appear in Topics in the semantics of Slavic languages, eds. Berit Gehrke and Radek Šimík. Berlin: Language Science Press
keywords:	clause typing, form-function mismatches, imperatives, modality, performativity, root phenomena, subject obviation, surrogate imperatives, semantics, syntax
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