Friday, 29 December 2023

Summary Of Exclamatives And Negative Imperatives

Martin (2013: 55):


Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, a proscription against negative exclamative clauses fails to account for instances like What a good boy you are…not!

[2] To be clear, the discussion of negative imperatives misrepresented Finite not as a Mood Adjunct.

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 165-6) for the full paradigm of negative imperatives:



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