TY - JOUR AU - Miltersen, Ehm Hjorth PY - 2019/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Øv – A Problem for Categorization JF - Scandinavian Studies in Language JA - Scanstudlang VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7146/sss.v10i1.114670 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/sss/article/view/114670 SP - 41-62 AB - <p>The Danish word <em>øv</em> is traditionally categorized as an interjection. However, in a set of data primarily from chat conversations, several instances of <em>øv</em> do not match any traditional definition of interjections: It is syntactically integrated and thus does not constitute a full utterance on its own, and its semantic-pragmatic use is more nuanced than “expressing an aspect of the speaker’s mental state”. Th e main part of the article is a functionally-based analysis of these instances of <em>øv</em>, the insights from which are used to question the general practice of lexical categorization. I argue that a pragmatically based model of categorization is better able to account for the full range of uses for a word form.</p> ER -