ТАК НАЗЫВАЕМОЕ "ПОВЕЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ НАКЛОНЕНИЕ” И ЕГО ПАРАДИГМА
THE SO CALLED “IMPERATIVE MOOD” AND THE QUESTION OF ITS PARADIGM

Summary/Abstract: All attempts to make the Imperative enter the system of the verbum finitum of any language, as a member of it, having up-to day proved unsatisfactory this fact is indoubtedly due to the improper traditional treatment of the Imperative as of a certain “mood of the verb” (to put together with the other modi verbi, such as Indicativus, Coniunctivus, etc.). To avoid the difficulties of placing Im peratives within the verbal system , here a methodology is advanced, which tries to approach the Imperative as a kind of “hybrid verbal category” , that shares features of the verb and, alternatively, of some other part of speech, being commonly known a sverboid In conformity with this the Imperative is here seen as a verboid, which accumulatestraits inherent in the verb, as well as in the in terjection, which allows it to enter adequately the class of verboids: viz. the Infinitive (the verb X the noun), the participle (the verb X the adjective), the Imperative (the verb X the interjection), etc. As a consequence, the highly controversial problem concerning limits the paradigm of the Imperative must be enclosed within, finds an efficacious solution. The latter provides that the Imperative paradigm must contain a set of verbal forms that should be specialized expressions of command-relations, and which meet certain formal and semantical criteria (for details, see § 4.0). These criteria being applied to various languages, as well as to various stages in the historical development of a single language, may yield results, which can differ considerably as to the extention and constitution of the Imperative paradigm of the language in question.

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