optative

Related Term(s)

Sources

• TRASK 1993 195

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• HALLIDAY 1994 87

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• QUIRK etal. 1985 839 (optative subjunctive)

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• RUWET 1973[trans.] 221-222

  RUWET, Nicholas. (1973 [trans.]) An Introduction to Generative Grammar. Trans. by Norval S.H. Smith. Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Co.

• BYBEE etal. 1994 179

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• MATTHEWS 1997 258

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• CRYSTAL 2003 328

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

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• LYONS 1971 308

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• LYONS 1977 815-816

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• LEVINSON 1983 42

  LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

• ELL 5151

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• CRYSTAL 2003 328

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