Hey bro I got somethin’ that’ll blow ya mind
There is an extensive literature dealing with English imperative sentences.
As is well known, these sentences have no overt grammatical subject: (1) Close the door. There is general agreement among scholars that these sentences have deep structures involving an underlying subject, “you,” which is deleted by a transformation.
There is a widespread misconception that utterances such as (2) Fuck you, which also appear to have the form of a transitive verb followed by a noun phrase and preceded by no overt subject, are also imperative. This paper will study the syntax of sentences such as (2).
