Abstract Exclamative expressions like What an enormous crowd came! and How wonderful this journey is! have been described as forming one of the four basic sentence (or clause) types of English. The present paper discusses the main features of this type and analyzes them with reference to the framework of Discourse Grammar. It is argued that the structure of exclamatives can be related to other sentence types in terms of discourse strategies that are used for constructing texts, in particular by means of cooptation, a cognitive-communicative strategy that enables speakers to use existing text pieces for new discourse functions.

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wh-感叹词在英语中的地位

摘要感叹词，如多么庞大的人群来了！这段旅程多么美妙！被描述为构成英语的四种基本句子（或从句）类型之一。本文讨论了该类型的主要特点，并参照语篇语法框架进行了分析。有人认为，就用于构建文本的话语策略而言，感叹词的结构可以与其他句子类型相关，特别是通过 cooptation，一种认知交际策略，使说话者能够使用现有的文本片段进行新的话语职能。