This chapter argues against a view according to which pragmatics, as opposed to
semantics, is completely outside grammar. It suggests that, on the contrary, speakers …

The topic of constructional inheritance is discussed by means of a detailed qualitative
analysis of the conditional imperative construction in Dutch and in Russian. It is argued that …

This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against
the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the …

The article examines the striking correlation of the directive infinitive with negation in Dutch.
This correlation is interpreted in the light of recent findings on the form of the prohibitive in …

1.1 Setting This study is a corpus-based investigation into the (frequency of the) functions of
the English imperative, those of the Dutch imperative, the (dis) similarities between both …

The present volume contains six studies of phenomena in the grammar and lexicon of
Modern Standard Dutch and, in one instance, in its sister language Afrikaans. In terms of …

Apart from the imperative form of the verb and the imperative infinitive, Dutch has a third way
to express imperative meaning, the imperative past participle. We will show that the …

This chapter presents a bird's eye perspective on Dutch, taking a historical perspective.
Indeed, many characteristics of Dutch can only be understood by diachronically tracing the …

This paper investigates the use of modal particles in spoken Dutch imperatives. Two types of
particles are differentiated: mitigating, which are often used as a politeness strategy, and …

The English imperative and its Dutch counterpart have seldom been studied and compared
from a quantitative, usage-based perspective. This article fills the gap by examining what …