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Re: [Latejami] exclamations



Okay, I'll give that a shot.
 
stevo

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Rick <rickmorn@hidden.email> wrote:
 

On Wednesday 12 January 2011 21:04:04 you wrote:
> How would exclamations be translated into Latejami? Would they require
> their own classifier(s)? Or might they be disjuncts?
>
> stevo
>

I haven't given this any thought until now, but I imagine they'd all be speech
acts.

The best thing to do is to create a list of representative examples and try to
figure out the syntax and semantics that they have in common.

Rick