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The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | ||
* optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging); | * optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging); | ||
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (Don't walk!); | * prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker ("Don't walk!"); | ||
* imperatives in indirect speech, with a complementizer ("He ordered me to go back"); | * imperatives in indirect speech, with a complementizer ("He ordered me to go back"); | ||
* purpose clauses, with the relativizer ''rind'' or other conjunctions; ("the word to say"). | * purpose clauses, with the relativizer ''rind'' or other conjunctions; ("the word to say"). |