Interjections, the words that come between sentences, are easily overlooked and usually
treated as peripheral to the language sciences. This review surveys work from disparate …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

The present article analyzes the meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao, a Khoe-
Kwadi (Kalahari Khoe) language. Making use of a prototype approach to categorization, a …

This paper explores sort humor 'black humor', a key concept in Danish conversational
humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes …

Interjection is the word used to show spontaneous expression. Batak language has a
specific emotive interjection Bah! which is different from other interjections in the language …

The present paper analyzes the system of laughter-based interjections (L-INTJs) in Xhosa.
By drawing on corpus and fieldwork evidence, the author concludes the following: the …

This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to
“humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, ie by reliance …

Interjection is a word used to express feelings or something spontaneously. In Indonesian
there are many interjection words, but here what will be discussed is an interjection HA …

Resumé Med afsæt i begrebet medialekt som betegnelse for mediespecifikke
sprogvariationer–og med en præcisering af begrebet–præsenteres en medialektal tilgang til …

The present dissertation concerns formal aspects of Polish borrowing in 21st-century
Wymysorys–a minority Germanic language spoken by a few dozen people in the town of …