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Requests and questions are important actions in human interaction. Their linguistic form depends usually on politeness principles or a particular language and culture. We have studied different forms of requests in Estonian, Finnish, French, Lithuanian and Russian.
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This page is a summary of: Characteristics of request formulation in Estonian, Finnish, French, Lithuanian and Russian, Language Typology and Universals, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2017-0021.
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