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The functional scope of interjection is defined by its behaviour as shown on several metabasis, e.g. the transcategorization phenomena involving the emotive use of noun or verbal phrases as «improper» interjections. In other words,... more

The functional scope of interjection is defined by its behaviour as shown on
several metabasis, e.g. the transcategorization phenomena involving the emotive use
of noun or verbal phrases as «improper» interjections. In other words, interjection
will be defined based on the features which fade away when a verb such as venga,
a noun like demoño or adjectives such as claro are used as interjections. Or, taking
the opposite view, based on the features added to a phrase such as Vaya… when
used as an expressive adjectival phrase ¡Vaya!, la suegra → ¡Vaya suegra! This process
is nothing but the immobilization of every single aspect (morphological, syntactic
and semantic) within such phrases. Interjections are, therefore, phrases taking part
of an exclamatory utterance, extrasentential (since they trigger no dependencies at
sentential level), amorphematic (for they present no morphological variation, nor
can they be morphologically referred to), and semantically instructional, having no
possibility of conceptual representation. This approach allows us to tackle the description
of a set of units which lie halfway between several categories (exclamatory
utterance, performative message, exclamation, affective statements, conversational
markers, euphemism, dysphemism, etc.) and consider whether to include or exclude
them from the interjections paradigm.