Talk:Interjection
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Are yes and no interjections?
Would onomatopoeia be linguistically/grammatically classified as interjections?
- The sets of interjections and onomatopoeia most probably overlap somewhere (though that 'somewhere' is different for each language); but onomatopoeia is a phonosemantically defined category, whereas the category of interjections is mainly syntactically defined. In other words, they're not defined on the same level. In other words, no. For example, languages can (and do) have onomatopoeic verbs and nouns, which obviously don't qualify as interjections. — mark ✎ 18:50, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- OK. Thanks!