Comparative Concept: prohibitive construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
prohibitive construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | prohibitive construction |
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the construction that expresses a prohibitive speech act. Example: English Don't be a fool! is an instance of a prohibitive; the construction uses a special prohibitive morpheme Don't to express prohibitive function. (Section 12.4.1)