Re: Primary Interjections - Universals?
| From: | Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 7, 2002, 4:49 |
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Em Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:43:53 -0800, Roger Christian <rogchr75@...> escreveu:
nian all have /m:/
> The only helpful source I found on the web is a
> dissertation called Sound Symbolism by Asa Abelin. I
> have the pdf file, although I can't seem to find it
> again online or I'd post the link. It has primary
> interjections from a few European languages and
> Malagasy(!) in the appendix which agree with these
> speculations.
Maybe it´s this one:
http://www.ling.gu.se/~abelin/ny%20inlaga.pdf
Try http://www.ling.gu.se/~abelin/, there´s other on-line
material there.
> I'm not sure what to think of the English interjection
> "wow" in this hypothesis--maybe it's a
> counter-example. Still minimally, these are at least
> all extremely vocalic.
Portuguese has POXA (/poSa/) for surprise, which isn´t used as
any other part of speech, so I believe it falls under your definition of
interjection. EITA (/ejta/) is also used.
By the way, hello all. I´ve been away for some months now and am
finally back!
--
Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
Departamento de Sistemas e Computação - DSC
Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB
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