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We present a dynamic deontic model for the interpretation of imperative sentences in terms of Obligation (O) and Permission (P). Under the view that imperatives prescribe actions and unlike the so-called “standard solution” (Huntley [10]) these operators act over actions rather that over statements. By distinguishing obligatory from non-obligatory actions we tackle the paradox of Free Choice Permission (FCP).
Imperatives are a type of sentence. Levinson says “it seems that the three basic sentence types, interrogative, imperative, and declarative are universals, all languages appear to have at least two and mostly three of these” Levinson [14] p. 242).
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Pérez-Ramírez, M., Fox, C. (2003). Imperatives as Obligatory and Permitted Actions. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_6
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