Programm 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

Imperatives have crosslinguistically been linked to 2nd person before: Perhaps pragmatically, imperatives lend themselves the easiest to 2nd person, as has been observed as a pattern by Aikhenvald 2012, among others: 2 > 1PL.incl, 3 > 1PL.excl, 1SG. If a language employs imperatives, it first does so (typologically speaking) for 2nd person. I want to take my analysis a step further and even state that there is evidence that 2nd person can be an active feature in non-2nd-person configurations; configurations that have been called ``non-canonical imperatives´´ by researchers like Aikhenvald.