Quote Imperatives - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

(23) She allowed as how her dog “[ate] strange things when left to itsown devices”(24) And I even pissed off the youngest one so much that he told me toquote unquote “stick a lamp up [my] ass”.5 ConclusionConclusions• thesis:– embedded imperatives are mixed quoted– following Kuno– against Oshima, Schwager, Crnic&Trinh• analysis:– Taro said “come to [his] house!”– Hans hat dir doch gestern schon gesagt, “ruf [meinen]Vater an!”• formalization:– Geurts&Maier: mixed quotation as presupposition– Schwager: imperatives as modals– Shan: interjected quotes as mix quoted constructionsFurther research• worry: unrestricted application of invisible “. . . ” and invisible [. . . ]⇒ vacuous?• investigate pragmatic restrictions– do not switch perspective (⇒ report indirectly)– use mixed/direct quote when relevant phrase would get lost inindirect report∗ e.g. mispronunciation, expressive, imperative,. . .– mixed quote full constituents– minimize mixed quote– use [. . . ] to avoid conflicts13