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The unembeddability of imperatives in Korean: Two different types of imperative morphology

The unembeddability of imperatives in Korean: Two different types of imperative morphology AbstractThis article presents additional data in support of the fact that imperatives cannot be embedded in Korean. It demonstrates that the language employs two different types of imperative morphology: one that occurs in main clauses and the other that occurs in embedded environments, and that their occurrence is mutually exclusive. That being the case, the main imperative morphology is a bona fide illocutionary force marker that is syntactically encoded in the main clauses only, whereas the embedded imperative morphology simply serves as a clause-type indicator with no illocutionary force. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Open Linguistics de Gruyter

The unembeddability of imperatives in Korean: Two different types of imperative morphology

Open Linguistics , Volume 7 (1): 7 – Feb 18, 2021

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de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2021 Changguk Yim, published by De Gruyter
ISSN
2300-9969
eISSN
2300-9969
DOI
10.1515/opli-2021-0005
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Abstract

AbstractThis article presents additional data in support of the fact that imperatives cannot be embedded in Korean. It demonstrates that the language employs two different types of imperative morphology: one that occurs in main clauses and the other that occurs in embedded environments, and that their occurrence is mutually exclusive. That being the case, the main imperative morphology is a bona fide illocutionary force marker that is syntactically encoded in the main clauses only, whereas the embedded imperative morphology simply serves as a clause-type indicator with no illocutionary force.

Journal

Open Linguisticsde Gruyter

Published: Feb 18, 2021

Keywords: imperative; unembeddable; clause type; speech act projection; Korean

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