Approximation to the Study of the Interjection in Egyptian Dialectal Arabic

Abstract

Our aim in this issue is to analyze the use of interjections in the dialectal Arabic of Egypt, giving a special attention to those of emotive sense. We begin studying the linguistic nature of interjections and conclude that they are always used to convey a vague sense, because of the procedural nature that they semantically have. Analyzing the combinatorial possibilities of interjections, we can affirm that they are autonomous sequences that do not accept transposition or any other mechanism of link that could change their original syntactic category. Finally we centre upon the semantic values with which these elements are used in Egyptian Arabic and detect the existence of two basic mechanisms of creation of new interjections: the lexicalization of expressions of original vocative content or religious sense.