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    • Describing and explaining the variation of Bantu imperatives and prohibitives 

      Devos, Maud; Van Olmen, Daniël (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)
      This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the basis of a sample of 100 languages, ...
    • The imperative of say as a pragmatic marker in English and Dutch 

      Van Olmen, Daniël (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
      This article examines the imperative of say as a pragmatic marker in English and Dutch. Present-day say and zeg ‘say’ are contrasted on the basis of comparable corpus data. This comparison, together with additional ...