caa a22 4500 386328811 CHVBK 20180307111703.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002222670001416X doi S002222670001416X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002222670001416X A Government-Binding perspective on the imperative in English [Elektronische Daten] Culicover (1976:152) states that ‘the imperative is an idiosyncratic construction in most languages'. One of the aims of this article is to show that as far as this construction in the English language is concerned, this is an overstatement if we give careful consideration to the structural properties of this construction in a restrictive framework such as Government-Binding theory. Given the proposals in current generative grammar concerning the relations between COMP, INFL, V and their corresponding projections, it is worth investigating what the syntactic representation of the imperative may look like. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Beukema Frits University of Leiden Coopmans Peter University of Utrecht Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 417-436 0022-2267 25:2<417 1989 25 LIN https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222670001416X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222670001416X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beukema Frits University of Leiden NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coopmans Peter University of Utrecht NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 417-436 0022-2267 25:2<417 1989 25 LIN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge