Abstract:Alongside the imperative proper, Livonian has developed a secondary indirect imperative paradigm referred to as the jussive. The category of person is the most controversial category concerning imperatives. The scope of the functions of imperatives has also received a lot of attention. This study focuses on the distribution of the person forms of the Livonian jussive and the covariance between function and person. Jussive occurrences from two corpora have been analysed for person and function, cross-referenced… Show more
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