Detail #82: Restricted imperatives

A language where imperatives cannot have adverbs of time, adverbs of location nor adverbs of manner. Not all verbs have proper imperatives, and the imperative is often slightly irregularly formed. A complement is generally mandatory (although a kind of empty dummy complement also exists). Other arguments are also rather limited - instruments can appear, but if so tend to be marked as objects instead, and seldom co-appear with direct objects. Indirect objects sometimes do appear with direct objects, but generally speaking either the direct or the indirect object tends to be understood.

More complex orders - anything involving a non-present time, non-present location or more complicated tools are expressed using various periphrastic means often involving irrealis moods or indirect statements.

Detail #16, addendum #1: Wackernagel exceptions

(This post provides further development of this idea.)

In a language with some Wackernagel adpositions, adpositions are prohibited from entering the Wackernagel position if the NP has an extracted pre-nominal attribute, e.g.

many.loc he went in towns.loc - he went to many towns

In this language, extraction of adjectives and some quantifiers can serve as a kind of emphasis.