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1 janvier 2019
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Alexander Andrason et al., « The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa: A a corpus-driven study », Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus), ID : 10670/1.ahbuvs
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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 following: in its integrity, the category of interjections is internally complex and diversified, containing members with varying degrees of canonicity and extra-systematicity. Although in various uses interjections comply with the interjectional prototype, being thus extra-systematic, in many others, their canonicity and extra-systematicity are significantly lower.