Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach

Abstract This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed the literature. The interaction of with other operators reveals presence an existential operator. At same time, however, it is shown cannot be analysed invariably conveying possibility. Instead, I suggest analysis imperative verbal mood semantically contentful, triggering a presupposition results domain restriction for set evaluation worlds. Combining insights from both modal (Schwager 2006; Kaufmann 2012) minimal approach (Portner 2004, 2007), we can have modalized if take contentful at presuppositional level. twist allows us capture variable quantificational force depending on environment they appear in.