Abstract
The lecture identifies and classifies indicators of the exclamative function in the Czech language. The identification of the markers of the exclamative function relies on a contrastive, corpus-assisted approach: Czech exclamative utterances are identified in the corpus InterCorp as the translation counterparts of prototypical English exclamative clauses with distinctive syntactic structure.
The exclamative function of Czech utterances is shown to be indicated by a combination of lexical and grammatical means, which are often polyfunctional. These linguistic markers reflect the basic features of exclamations: contextual dependence (recoverable propositional content), and the speaker's stance and evaluation of the situation as noncanonical and extreme in some respect.