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Universal 2018:
- Original
- All languages have “emotive” interjections (i.e. interjections expressing cognitively based feelings).
- Standardized
- There are “emotive” interjections (i.e. interjections expressing cognitively based feelings).
- Keywords
- emotion, sensation, cognition, interjection
- Domain
- syntax, lexicon
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- “working hypothesis … on evidence gleaned from both cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies”
- Source
- Wierzbicka 1999: 276, 283-284
- Counterexamples
(i) English examples: gee!, wow!, yuk!(ii) Sign lgs are included in the scope of the universal.