Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory Ser.: Imperatives and Commands by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2010, Hardcover)

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Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or command strategies, in languages that do not have special imperative forms. She analyses the grammatical and semantic properties of positive and negative imperatives and shows how these correlate with categories such as tense, information source, and politeness.