imperative--hortative (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Dance!
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Let's dance!
Definition a speech act which requests that the action expressed in the propositional content of the imperative--hortative be carried out, prototypically by the addressee but possibly by other persons. Example: Dance! is an example of the English imperative--hortative construction for the second person, and Let's dance! is an example of the same for the first person plural. The term hortative is sometimes used for a first person imperative--hortative, and jussive for a third person imperative--hortative. A negative imperative--hortative is a prohibitive. (Sections 12.1, 12.4)
altLabel hortative
altLabel imperative
See section (in Croft 2022) 12.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 12.4
Function of imperative--hortative construction
Subtype of speech acts

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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