Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
interjection [Lat.
intericere ‘to throw between’]
Group of words which express feelings, curses, and wishes or are used to initiate conversation (Ouch!, Darn!, Hi!). Their status as a grammatical category is debatable, as they behave strangely in respect to morphology, syntax, and semantics: they are formally indeclinable, stand outside the syntactic frame, and have no lexical meaning, strictly speaking. Interjections often have onomatopoeic (
onomatopoeia) characteristics: Brrrrr!, Whoops!, Pow!
References
discourse marker
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