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Heine, Bernd, Kaltenboeck, Gunther and Kuteva, Tania (2020). On the status of wh-exclamatives in English. Funct. Lang., 27 (2). S. 207 - 234. AMSTERDAM: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO. ISSN 1569-9765

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Abstract

Exclamative expressions like What an enormous crowd came! and How wonderful this journey is! have been described as forming one of the four basic sentence (or clause) types of English. The present paper discusses the main features of this type and analyzes them with reference to the framework of Discourse Grammar. It is argued that the structure of exclamatives can be related to other sentence types in terms of discourse strategies that are used for constructing texts, in particular by means of cooptation, a cognitive-communicative strategy that enables speakers to use existing text pieces for new discourse functions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Heine, Bernd UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kaltenboeck, Gunther UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kuteva, Tania UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-350160
DOI:	10.1075/fol.17028.hei
Journal or Publication Title:	Funct. Lang.
Volume:	27
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 207 - 234
Date:	2020
Publisher:	JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1569-9765
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language CLAUSES; CONSTRUCTION; GRAMMAR Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35016