On the Interaction of the Dutch Pragmatic Particles hoor and hè with the Imperative and Infinitivus Pro Imperativo
Robert Scott Kirsner · Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) · 2003
"The purpose of the present paper is to discuss two such phenomena and to explain the hitherto undescribed interaction between them. First we consider the utterance-final pragmatic particles hoor (literally ‘hear’) and hè (‘isn’t it’): cf. Kirsner & Deen (1990), Kirsner & van Heuven (1997). Next we survey two imperative structures of Dutch: the bare verb stem (STM), used with finite clause word-order, and the ‘infinitive used as imperative’ (infinitivus pro imperativo), or IPI, primarily used with verb-final word order; cf. Kirsner, van Heuven & Caspers (1998), van Heuven & Kirsner (1999). Because English does not have an equivalent of either the hoor-hè contrast or the STM-IPI contrast, we provide illustrative examples"