The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa : A a corpus-driven study

This paper examines the syntactic properties of interjections in isiXhosa and their compliance with the interjectional prototype and its extra-systematicity as postulated in linguistic typology. By reviewing nearly two thousand uses of interjections in the comic genre, the authors conclude the follo...

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Main Authors: Andrason, Alexander, Matutu, Haile
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2019-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/833