Is the “Imperative” the “Imperative Mode”? (the Criterion of Inflectional Paradigms) Cover Image

¿Es el “imperativo” el “modo imperativo”? (el criterio de paradigmas flexivos)
Is the “Imperative” the “Imperative Mode”? (the Criterion of Inflectional Paradigms)

Author(s): Wiaczesław Nowikow
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: morphology and morphosyntax; spanish; verb; imperativo (imperative) – grammatical status

Summary/Abstract: The article treats about the status of grammatical forms of imperativo (eng. imperative) in contemporary Spanish. The author focuses primarily on formal (morphological) aspects of the imperativo. The conclusions stated that due to the small number of their inflectional forms, form the formal point of view it is hardly to conceive imperativo the same status as that of indicativo and subjuntivo.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 127-139
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Spanish
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