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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"exclamatives"”.
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A generative account of English exclamatives
<p>Exclamatives are an intriguing case study of the syntax-semantics interface. Despite several attempts to define them and explain their properties, there has not yet been convergence on a general theory of the exclamative sentence type. This thesis aims to unify existing approaches to …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
… linguistic functions: thetics, miratives and exclamatives. Thetics are an information structure configuration that conveys that the information is new to the addressee. The thetic subtypes selected for this study are the following: existentials (e.g. There are apples in the kitchen); …
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On the grammar of optative constructions
… optative constructions with so-called polar exclamatives, clauses that express surprise, shock or dismay at a given fact without containing a lexical item that means 'surprise', 'shock' or 'dismay'. The goal is to better understand the way in which syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… as declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives and exclamatives depending on the awarder�s evaluation. The study also finds that in negotiating attitudes, modality is highly incorporated. The study concludes that Sesotho names conform to the logical structures of the nominal group and the verbal …