RT Journal Article
T1 Defining the indefinable? Interjections
A1 Cuenca, Maria Josep
AB Interjections are usually defined as an anomalous grammatical class inmost levels of analysis. This paper presents an alternative account ofinterjections within the frameworks of prototype theory, on the one hand,and grammaticalization, on the other hand. Adopting a prototype approachto grammatical categorization, interjections are better seen as peripheralinstances of sentences, since they behave as maximal units of syntax butdo not exhibit a subject plus predicate structure. On the other hand.grammaticalization theory accounts for the distinction between primaryand secondary interjections and allows to establish the limits betweeninterjections and phrases.
YR 2010
FD 2010-04-28T10:59:55Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3204
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3204
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026