Passive Imperatives in Indonesian

An imperative clause is understood as a construction in which the subject commonly filled by second person but it licitly dropped and verb that co-occurs with realized basic form Indonesian. active clause, on other hand, contains an obligatory subject, inflected meN verbal prefix, object makes sentence readily transformed into its passive counterpart. Given characteristic contrasts between Indonesian, seems to be impossible derive imperative. However, passives are available The present study aims uncover issues of employs descriptive qualitative method. Most data for were obtained from Leipzig Corpora remaining elicited speakers Adopting theory speaker commitment hypothesis analysis, findings show Indonesian has This support can evidenced fact associated complex recovered main thereby corroborating idea imperatives operate par negative possess prototypical constructions.