Interjection

Definitions

1. An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
2. An interruption; something interjected

Equivalents

Examples

“322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name⟳ of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.”

“Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy⟳ different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur⟳ after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf. (21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate⟳ him (dislocated NP) (21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate⟳ (topicalised NP)”

“Mnuchin, asked about climate change⟳ in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host⟳ noted clean⟳ air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.”

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