Imperatives

This is your opportunity to try your hand at some original semantic research. I mentioned in class several times the possibility of analyzing imperatives as a type of deontic modality. Provide an analysis of the following imperatives using a deontic operator.

      1. Take out the trash!

      2. Clean your room!

Provide an analysis using possible worlds to give a semantics to your analysis. What types of possible worlds do you need?

Does your account explain why the following imperative sounds odd?

      3. * Be short!