If speech act constructions – constructions which indicate some feature of an illocutionary act – in certain subordinate clauses, then speech-act constructions also in main clauses.
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IF there are speech act constructions in certain subordinate clauses, THEN there are speech act constructions in main clauses.
For the complex details see Hooper & Thompson 1973, Green 1976, Bolinger 1977, Lakoff 1984. The idea is that there is a main clause privilege (There’s more going on upstairs than downstairs, J. R. Ross) for imperative, exclamatives, etc.
For the complex details see Hooper & Thompson 1973, Green 1976, Bolinger 1977, Lakoff 1984. The idea is that there is a main clause privilege (There’s more going on upstairs than downstairs, J. R. Ross) for imperative, exclamatives, etc.