A Contribution to the Study of Interjections in Canaano-Akkadian

Abstract

This article offers a holistic corpus-driven analysis of the lexical class of interjections in Canaano-Akkadian. The authors demonstrate that the interjective category contains at least seven members (ia, alik, amur, šime, annû, allû and šulma) of varying semantic (emotive, conative and phatic) and formal (primary and secondary) properties. The observed properties generally corroborate the synchronic and diachronic tendencies associated with interjections in linguistic typology.