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Negative exclamatives in Afrikaans: some initial thoughts
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 We consider the to date minimally discussed phenomenon of negative exclamatives in Afrikaans. Negative exclamatives superficially seem to be negative, when they are in fact positive exclamations.
Biberauer, Theresa +1 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2019 This paper focuses on the cognitive and semantic difference between HOW and WHAT exclamatives in a literary corpus (two collections of short stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published in 1923, Bliss: and Other Stories and The Garden Party: and ...
Julie Neveux
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Catalan “Déu n’hi do” and Conventional Implicatures in Exclamatives
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of the Catalan interjection ‘Déu n’hi do’ (DND, henceforth) and its interactions with exclamative sentences.
Laia Mayol
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Syntactic strategies of exclamatives
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2013 The study presented in this paper has two aims. First, it establishes pragmasemantic features of exclamations and exclamatives relying on three formulated approaches – a constructional approach, a presupposition approach, and a scalarity approach, and ...
Natalia Zevakhina
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Exclamatives, exclamations, miratives and speaker’s meaning [PDF]
International Review of Pragmatics, 2019 Abstract Exclamations, exclamatives and miratives are utterances that do not merely convey some informative content, but are designed to express the emotional attitude of surprise. In this paper I argue that analysing what it means to express surprise must be based on three main ideas: (1) the idea that exclamatives are instances of ...
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L’evolució de les oracions exclamatives-qu de grau en català [PDF]
, 2016 Resum: En aquest article estudiem l’evolució de les oracions exclamatives-qu de grau des del català antic al català modern i contemporani. Tracem dos grans canvis que han fet passar aquestes construccions d’un patró general en les llengües romàniques ...
Villalba Nicolás, Xavier
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The multifunctionality of -o in Rukiga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper discusses the particle -o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun agreeing in noun class, reported in previous studies as an emphatic ...
Allen Asiimwe, Jenneke van der Wal
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On the prosodic realization of Spanish ¿no?-tags from a pragmatic perspective
Isogloss, 2022 The aim of this paper is to report on an empirical study investigating the prosodic realization of the Spanish tag ¿no? added to host clauses with different clause types, realizing various speech act types. Although ¿no? is commonly assumed to display a
Anna Gazdik
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Ecography, EarlyView.Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa +4 more
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Les exclamatives de Mlle Pellaton
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012 Notre étude porte sur des énoncés nominaux à valeur exclamative du type "le bol qu’elles avaient !" (oral, énoncé avec dépit par l’un des perdants d’une partie de cartes, à propos des gagnantes).
Corminboeuf Gilles, Gachet Frédéric
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