2006
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Mariana Tutescu, « L'interjection modalisation, axiologisation et grammaticalisation. Le cas des interjections roumaines zau et vai », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.2006.2703
Mariana Tutescu: The interjection modality, axiological investment and grammaticalization. The case of the Romanian interjections ZAU et VAI Interjection is conceived in this paper as an epistemic modaliser whose function on the utterance level is that of an évaluation marker. The interjection as a linguistic sign is at the same time an index, an icon and a symbol. Describing the uses of the Romanian interjections VAI < vae lat. and ZÀU > Deus lat, the author conjectures that thèse interjectional modalisers undergo a grammaticalization based upon generalized delocutivity and axiological investment. The argument focusses on the grammaticalization of VAI, whose graduai conversion from exophrastic to endophrastic use relies on seven steps.