The main goal of this article is to argue for the existence and crosslinguistic stability of a phenomenon that I call “negation-licensed commands” (NLCs), in which commands can be interpreted as such only in the presence of negation. The article explores morphosyntactic properties of NLCs in a small number of unrelated languages. It stops short of an analysis of the phenomenon, which will have to await future research.

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否定许可的命令

本文的主要目的是为一种现象（我称之为“否定许可的命令”（NLC））的存在和跨语言的稳定性辩护，在该现象中，只有在否定存在的情况下，命令才能被解释为这样。本文探讨了少数几种不相关语言中NLC的形态句法特性。它没有对现象进行分析，而必须等待未来的研究。