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This chapter is a systemic functional typology of imperative mood. It is found languages bear similarity in elaborating the imperative mood further in delicacy along the dimension of the Subject person. Some major types of imperative mood identified in this chapter, based on the Subject person, are the jussive mood (the second person), the cohortative mood (the first person plural), the optative mood (the third person), the oblative mood (the first person singular), and the hortative mood (all the three persons). The subtypes and the realizations of these types of imperatives will be explored in the first five sections of this chapter. Section 7.6 presents other minor types of imperative mood, including the prohibitive, the permissive, the impersonal imperative, and those imperatives identified in Mongolian. Languages vary both in the types and in the realizations of imperative mood.
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Li, D. (2023). A Systemic Functional Typology of Imperative Mood. In: A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8821-9_7
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