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A Comparative Study of Interjections in Chinese and English
School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics·Volume 10 (2020)·Pages 315–320·Published 14 July 2020·DOI10.4236/ojml.2020.104018
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Abstract
Interjections are emotive words with no referential content. In both Chinese and English, they are classified as a special word class. In order to better comprehend interjections and further deepen our knowledge of these two language systems, a comparison of Chinese interjections and English interjections is made at three levels—morphological structures, semantic relations and syntactic functions. Similarities of Chinese and English interjections are found to outnumber their differences.
KeywordsInterjectionsComparisonMorphological StructureSense RelationSyntactic Function
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