Universal #913

Legacy number: 913

 Number  910
 Original  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.
 Standardized  IF there are speech act constructions in certain subordinate clauses, THEN there are speech act constructions in main clauses.
 Keywords  speech act construction, clause, main, subordinate
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Croft 1995a: 498

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Discussion
Notes
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.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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.