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Imperative logic, moods and sentence radicals

The aim of this essay is to examine two challenges that the imperative logic poses to the received view of the sentence moods. According to the received view, there are three logico-semantic moods, indicative, imperative and interrogative ; and there are two main components in natural language sentences, modal element and sentence radical. First, we will examine the challenge that change expression semantics poses to the view that there is only one radical per sentence. Second, we will examine the doubts regarding threefold division of moods, which stem from epistemic imperative conception of questions.

imperative logic; dynamic semantics; mood; modality

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