interjection
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of intericiō (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaciō (“throw”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ɪn.təˈdʒɛk.ʃən/
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Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Noun
interjection (plural interjections)
- (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 10, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 533:
- Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
(21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
(21) (b) ✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
- Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
- An interruption; something interjected
Synonyms
- (grammar): exclamation
Related terms
Translations
exclamation or filled pause in grammar
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interruption
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See also
- vocative
- interjection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Old French interjection, borrowed from Latin interiectiō, interiectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
interjection f (plural interjections)
Further reading
- “interjection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interiectiō, interiectiōnem.
Noun
interjection oblique singular, f (oblique plural interjections, nominative singular interjection, nominative plural interjections)
Descendants
- → English: interjection
- French: interjection
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