A free mini-workshop on Imperatives, embeddability and politeness will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at Yale on October 17. The Workshop starts at 9:15 and runs to 5:30. The three talks are:
"Typology of Root Phenomena" by Shigeru Miyagawa
"Speech Style in Root and Embedded Imperatives" by Miok Pak, Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini
"Embedded imperatives across languages: Too rare to expect, too frequent to ban" by Magdalena Kaufmann
If you plan on attending, write to raffaella.zanuttini@yale.edu for more information.
