TY - JOUR TI - Imperatives in contact. Linguistic interactions on the Sakhalin Island AU - de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso TI - Imperatives in contact. Linguistic interactions on the Sakhalin Island AB - The main goal of this paper is to describe some functional and formal similarities in the expression of imperatives and hortatives in various languages which are spoken in the Sakhalin Island. The suggestion is made that such similarities might have been contact-induced language changes that resulted from two common mechanisms: structural (inflectional) borrowing and grammatical accommodation. VL - 2017 IS - Volume 134, Issue 4 PY - 2017 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 305 EP - 322 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.17.022.7096 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/imperatives-in-contact-linguistic-interactions-on-the-sakhalin-island KW - Sakhalin linguistic diversity KW - language contact KW - grammatical accommodation KW - imperative