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10.4.2 Interrogative mood 339
10.4.3 Imperative mood 339
10.4.4 Optative mood 339
10.4.5 Conditional (subjunctive) mood 340
10.4.6 Allocutive agreement 341
10.5 Summary 342
CHAPTER 11: NON-DECLARATIVE SPEECH ACTS 345-379
11.0 Outline 345
11.1 Interrogative speech acts 345
11.1.1 Polar questions 345
11.1.2 Constituent questions 349
11.1.3 Negative polarity indefinities 355
11.2 Manipulative speech acts 356
11.2.1 Imperative 356
11.2.2 Hortative 360
11.3. De-transitive voice 361
11.3.1 Reflexive 361
11.3.2 Reciprocals 363
11.3.3 Insertion of dative, benefactive or associative arguments 364
11.4 Passive voice 366
11.4.1 Process of passivization 373
11.4.2 Functional domains of passive voice 376
11.5 Summary 378
CHAPTER 12: MARKED TOPICS AND CONTRASTIVE FOCUS 380-436
12.0 Outline 380
12.1 Marked topic constructions 380
12.1.1 Existential-presentative constructions 380
12.1.2 Y-movement 384
12.1.3 Left dislocation 385
12.1.4 Right dislocation 392
12.1.5 Dative-shifting 396
12.1.6 Raising 398
12.2 Contrastive focus constructions 411
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