Constructions in Fusion and in Clash : The Case of And-Conditional Imperatives in English

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This paper discusses and-conditional imperatives, or sometimes called "pseudoimperatives" -- coordinate sentences in which the first conjunct is an imperative, the secondconjunct a declarative, and the two are conjoined by and, as in Bring alcohol to school andyouʼll be suspended. I argue that the and-conditional imperative sentence is not an isolatedconstruction as is commonly assumed but is best analyzable in terms of higher-level leftsubordinatingand construction (cf. Culicover and Jackendoff 1997, 2005), occupied by anexample of non-prototypical imperative, a variant of imperative lacking strong command force.It is shown that the relevance-theoretic analysis of "pseudo-imperatives" by Clark (1993),who treats the imperative as an "ordinary imperative" and and as a truth-functional connectivereducible to a logical symbol, falls short of providing a detailed characterization. In addition,this analysis does not yield a principled account of a variety of syntactic and semantic phenomenaknown to peculiar to and-conditional imperatives; included are the ability to refer to pastsituations,the semantic impact of emphatic attitudinal items,as well as the felicitous appearanceof negative polarity items as well as stative predicates. In contrast, the construction-basedapproach of the present paper, it is argued, not only offers a fuller characterization of theand-conditional imperative construction but also neatly handles these seemingly disparate datain a unified manner, without relying heavily on pragmatic considerations.
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Constructions in Fusion and in Clash : The Case of And-Conditional Imperatives in English

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