Imperatives Flashcards
1
Q
What do imperatives do?
A
express commands
open the door!
2
Q
Give some morphosyntactic properties of imperatives
A
verbs are rarely marked for person, only number
verbs are not inflected with TAM markers
rarely express an overt subject, if they do its a pronoun
3
Q
How does Swahili mark imperatives?
A
for number
