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Imperative and Control: First Person Imperatives in Norwegian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Jan Terje Faarlund
Jan Terje Faarlund
Affiliation:
Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i Trondheim, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway
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Abstract

In Norwegian, the verb få ‘get, receive’ differs from all other verbs with respect to its use in imperative sentences and with respect to control properties in infinitival clauses. In the imperative, the deleted subject may be first person, and in clauses embedded after ‘ask’, få has unambiguous subject control. These syntactic facts are related to the lexical semantic properties of the verb få, and it is shown that this syntactic behavior is not due to some idiosyncratic peculiarity of this particular verb. The semantic properties of this and other Norwegian verbs account for the uniqueness of få in this respect.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , December 1985 , pp. 149 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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