Comparative Concept: bare verb stem (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
bare verb stem (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | bare verb stem |
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Definition
a strategy for the imperative–hortative construction, particularly the second person variant, in which the verb stem without any inflection is used. Example: English Dance! is an instance of the bare verb stem strategy for the second person imperative–hortative. (Section 12.4.1)