Author(s)

Anmin Mao

School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China.

Interjections are emotive words with no referential content. In both Chinese and English, they are classified as a special word class. In order to better comprehend interjections and further deepen our knowledge of these two language systems, a comparison of Chinese interjections and English interjections is made at three levels—morphological structures, semantic relations and syntactic functions. Similarities of Chinese and English interjections are found to outnumber their differences.

Interjections, Comparison, Morphological Structure, Sense Relation, Syntactic Function

Mao, A. (2020) A Comparative Study of Interjections in Chinese and English. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 10, 315-320. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2020.104018.