From mercy to annoyance: Semantic variations of the interjection aman in the Balkan languages
From mercy to annoyance: Semantic variations of the interjection aman in the Balkan languages

Author(s): Ekaterina Tarpomanova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: Balkan linguistics
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the semantics of the interjection aman as one of the common discourse markers in the contemporary languages of the Balkan Sprachbund. After a review of the description of aman in dictionaries and in previous studies, a unified approach to the semantics of the interjection is proposed considering its syntactic and discourse properties and its usage in idioms.

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