caa a22 4500 463173805 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11050-007-9022-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11050-007-9022-y Portner Paul Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, DC, USA aut Imperatives and modals [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Portner] Imperatives may be interpreted with many subvarieties of directive force, for example as orders, invitations, or pieces of advice. I argue that the range of meanings that imperatives can convey should be identified with the variety of interpretations that are possible for non-dynamic root modals (what I call ‘priority modals'), including deontic, bouletic, and teleological readings. This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between imperatives and priority modals in discourse which asserts that, just as declaratives contribute to the Common Ground and thus provide information relevant to the interpretation of epistemic modals in subsequent discourse, imperatives contribute to another component of the discourse context, the addressee's To-Do List, which serves as a contextual resource for the interpretation of priority modals. This analysis predicts that the interpretation of imperatives and modals in discourse is constrained in surprising ways; these predictions are borne out. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Imperatives nationallicence Modality nationallicence Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 351-383 0925-854X 15:4<351 2007 15 11050 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Portner Paul Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 351-383 0925-854X 15:4<351 2007 15 11050 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer