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A [[Closed Class (definition)|closed class]] [[Part of Speech (definition)| part of speech]] which expresses a particular emotion, usually surprise, but also anger, sadness etc. Sometimes exclamations are also called interjections, because they are injected into a sentence and provide more added semantic meaning than syntactic meaning. Examples, in English include, Oh! Wow! No! Please! etc. They are typically marked with an exclamation point and are said with a raised intonation.
  
English examples include ''Wow!'' and ''What a shame!''.
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*matà ''then''
marked by strong intonation and punctuation (ex. Exclamation point). 
 
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations
 
http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations
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http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnExclamation.htm
  
==References==
 
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
 
*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.

Latest revision as of 14:16, 31 July 2012

A closed class part of speech which expresses a particular emotion, usually surprise, but also anger, sadness etc. Sometimes exclamations are also called interjections, because they are injected into a sentence and provide more added semantic meaning than syntactic meaning. Examples, in English include, Oh! Wow! No! Please! etc. They are typically marked with an exclamation point and are said with a raised intonation.

  • matà then

See Also

External Links

http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnExclamation.htm

References

  • Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.