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On whimperatives and related questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anders Holmberg
Anders Holmberg
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Faculté des Lettres, Université de Mohammed I, Oujda, Morocco
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In a number of works up to 1974 Jerrold Sadock advanced and defended the claim that there are a limited but distinct number of sentence structures in English which exhibit true illocutionary ambiguity. Structure (1) belongs to this limited number.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 1979 , pp. 225 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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