Abstract
The present paper analyzes the category of interjections in Xhosa within a prototype approach. The evidence demonstrates the robustness and internal complexity of the interjectional category. Interjections ranges from canonical and asystematic to non-canonical and (relatively) systematic, with emotive primary interjections entertaining the highest extent of interjectionality and asystematicity.
- Abbreviations
- 1 … 15
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noun classes
- 1st
-
first person
- 2nd
-
second person
- abs
-
absolute pronoun
- Afr.
-
Afrikaans
- bf
-
Buffer
- cons
-
consecutive
- cop
-
copulative
- dem
-
demonstrative
- Eng.
-
English
- hort
-
hortative (kha- or ma-; Visser 2015:31)
- imp
-
imperative
- loc
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locative affix
- neg
-
negative
- oa
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object agreement
- part
-
particle
- pass
-
passive
- past
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past tense (the A tense)
- perf
-
perfect (the ILE tense)
- pl
-
plural
- pres
-
present
- poss
-
possessive
- pot
-
potential
- rec. comp
-
recent compound tense (Visser 2015:12–13)
- refl
-
reflexive
- rel
-
relative
- sa
-
subject agreement
- sg
-
singular
- sit
-
situative
- subj
-
subjunctive
- voc
-
vocative
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