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Inherent 2nd person in non-2nd-person imperatives

I want to present the preliminary results and a quick sketch of my analysis of non-2nd-person imperatives, also called non-canonical imperatives, in languages that allow for imperatives in all (or most) person-number configurations. I also want to show a quick sketch of the analysis I want to pursue.

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.

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Tag: 14.11.2025
Anfangszeit: 14:45
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: M17.23
Track: Theoretische Linguistik
Sprache: en

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