Interpreting Imperatives

Setting the Scene . Individuating Imperatives . Trying a Purely Functional Individuation . Trying a Purely Formal Individuation . Imperatives as Clause Types . Clause Types and Actual Utterances . Semantics or Pragmatics? - Deciding on the Boundaries . The Framework .- How to Handle Imperatives in Semantics . Three Parameters of Classification . Split and Uniform Representationalism . Assigning Meaning to Imperatives: Static or Dynamic . Possible Denotata for Imperatives . A Few Recent Approaches to Imperatives . Speech Acts as Input to Semantic Computation . Performative Modals and Non- epistemic Context Change Potentials . (Ex-)Changing the World . Imperatives as Updating To-Do Lists . Modalized Propositions: Idea and Motivation . Performative and Descriptive Modal Verbs . Updates and Speech Acts . Imperatives and Declarative on a Par .- Imperatives as Graded Modals . Modality in Possible Worlds Semantics . Simple Modality . Personal and Impersonal Conversational Backgrounds . Graded Modality . Imperatives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface . General Considerations on the Syntactic Make-Up of Imperatives . Tense, Aspect, and their Relation to Modality . Temporal Oppositions in Imperatives . The Imperative Subject . Do Imperatives Express Personal Modality? . Conclusion .- From Modalized Propositions to Speech Acts . Contextual Dependence in the Propositional Meaning Components . ORDERs, COMMANDs, and REQUESTs . PROHIBITIONs . WISHes and ABSENT WISHes . ADVICE . Constraining the Predictions: the Presuppositional Meaning Component . Restrictions Familiar from Modal Verbs . The Authority Condition . Epistemic Uncertainty , and Ordering Source Restriction . Putting it all together . Some Considerations on Propositionality and Rejections .- Possibility Readings . Permitting Permissions . PERMISSION-like Speech Acts . Any Troubles? . Indifference any-imperatives . Subtrigged Necessity any-imperatives . Recapitulating any-Results . for example-ADVICE . (In)Exhaustive Necessity and Possibility . Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend . Conclusion .- Embedding Imperatives . Reported Speech and Imperatives from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective . Indirect Speech, Parentheticals, and Quotations . Quotative Constructions in Japanese and Malagasy . Fossilized Constructions . Context Harmony in Old Germanic . Embedded Imperatives in Modern High German . Conclusion . Conditional Imperatives and Modal Subordination . A Full Paradigm of CIs . CIs and The Modal Operator Analysis of Imperatives . Modal Subordination . Conclusion . Conditional Conjunctions and Disjunctions . Comparing Conditional Flavors in IaDs, IoDs, and Speech Act Conjunctions , Towards an Analysis of Type II IaDs . Imperatives in IoDs and Non-Classical Disjunctions in General . Conclusion .- References .- Index