exclamative

In punctuation, an exclamative is ended with an exclamation mark.

Readers who follow these columns with scholarly intensity will remember Prof. James McCawley's recent exposition of the exclamative - a question with more of the force of an exclamation than an interrogation.

The words such and exclamative what can be followed by an indefinite article (as mentioned in the section above).

An exclamative or exclamatory sentence is released because of, and expresses strong emotion.

The four basic sentence functions in the world's languages include the declarative, interrogative, exclamative, and the imperative.

Exclamative particles are used as a method of recording aspects of human speech which may not be based entirely on meaning and definition.

Vowel morae that occur between the first stress and the exclamative suffix are low in pitch.

The Chinese language involves a number of spoken exclamative words and written onomatopoeia which are used in everyday speech and informal writing.

An exclamative tag.

Appending interrogative or exclamative particles to a sentence turns a statement into a question or shows the attitudes of the speaker.

The exclamative sentence-final marker wík is stressed in addition to the stress of the stem to which it is combined.

(both exclamative and imperative)

They are usually declarative (as opposed to exclamative, imperative, or interrogative); they express information in a neutral manner, e.g.

SV-clauses are usually declarative, but intonation and/or the appearance of a question word can render them interrogative or exclamative.

The determiner such and exclamative what precede the indefinite article (such an idiot, what a day!)

Standard SV-clauses can also be interrogative or exclamative, however, given the appropriate intonation contour and/or the appearance of a question word, e.g.

Exclamative particles are also used in the Korean language, such as the use of 에 (e) to represent surprise, although such usage is also considered informal.

Exclamative interrogative (interrogative structure with exclamative function): Why does this keep happening to me?

Functionalists doubt whether children really have structural knowledge, and argue that children rely on gestures to carry meaning (such as declarative, interrogative, exclamative or vocative).

The words such and exclamative what (these are followed by an indefinite article when used with a singular noun, as in such a treat, what a disaster!)

A few days after The Lede noted a dearth of exclamative headlines about shark attacks, a dramatic appearance was reported this morning by Bloomberg News:

If the matrix clause expresses the course of action preferred by the subject of the verb, however, then the infinitive must express a possibility which is rejected, as in the exclamative sentences treated above.

As for verbs, they are conjugated in five tenses: perfective, imperfective, future, imperative, conditional present and conditional past Tenses and in four forms: affirmative, exclamative, interrogative and negative forms.

As part of a group of words consisting of ahî, ay and ahei, which express pain, desire and admiration, ahiu can be found before exclamative or optative sentences and in emphatic greetings.

The mouth radical 口 found on many exclamative particles represents that the character is a sound, as with onomatopoeia and speech-related words, since phono-semantic compound subset of Chinese characters are classified through meaning by their radicals.

Use of exclamative particles is highly informal, and it is advised that they not be used in formal documents or academic papers, unless it is specifically required to do so (such as the case of narrative telling).

"That slogan is clearly an exclamative sentence and not an interrogative," writes Prof. James D. McCawley of the University of Chicago's linguistics department, author of the seminal "Syntactic Phenomena of English."