THE SUBJECT IN IMPERATIVE SENTENCES: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND PRAGMATICS
THE SUBJECT IN IMPERATIVE SENTENCES: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND PRAGMATICS

Summary/Abstract: Imperative sentences, often characterized by their directive nature, exhibitseveral syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic challenges in the study of linguistics. In most situations, imperative sentences often lack an explicit subject which typically leads to the generalization that the implied and recoverable subject is the second person. Linguistic research has challenged this view as itdraws attention to contexts where subjects are employed in an overt, explicit way. The present paper explores these contexts and investigates the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic dimensions of the subject in imperative sentences which traditionally omit overt subjects.

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