نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه زبانشناسی همگانی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
The main goal of this research is to investigate mood in Persian imperative sentences.. In Persian, subjunctive and imperative constructions are formed by adding the prefix "be-" to verbal stem. Although the traditional grammarians recognize at least three independent mood namely 'indicative', 'subjunctive' and 'imperative', the homonymy of the the verbal prefix, or subjunctive/ imperative verbal morphology for that matter, leads to ambiguity and difficulties in determining the number of moods in Persian. Some of the recent researches reject the distinction between the imperative and the subjunctive mood in Persian and consider the former as a subclass of the latter based on the verbal morphology and overlapping therein. In this paper, by challenging this view, we argue that regardless of the distinction between their functions and speech acts, the syntactic behaviors of these two constructions are different. For this purpose, this paper presents arguments based on serial verb constructions (SVCs), coordination and the distribution of subjunctive/ imperative constructions in certain embedded contexts. The arguments show that the subjunctive and the imperative moods are two different moods in Persian due to their syntactic behavior and Persian, like many other languages, has an independent imperative mood.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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