Editing Interjection (section)

== Historical classification ==
Greek and Latin intellectuals as well as the [[Modistae]] have contributed to the different perspectives of interjections in language throughout history.<ref name=":0" /> The Greeks held that interjections fell into the grammatical category of [[adverb]]s. They thought interjections modified the [[verb]] much in the same way as adverbs do, thus interjections were closely connected to verbs.

Unlike their Greek counterparts, many Latin scholars took the position that interjections did not rely on verbs and were used to communicate emotions and abstract ideas. They considered interjections to be their own independent [[part of speech]]. Further, the Latin grammarians classified any small non-word [[utterance]]s as interjections.<ref name=":0" />

Several hundred years later, the 13th- and 14th-century [[Modistae]] took inconsistent approaches to interjections. Some, such as Thomas of Erfurt, agreed with the former Greeks that the interjection was closely tied to the verb while others like Siger of Courtrai held that the interjection was its own part of speech syntactically, much like the Latin scholars.<ref name=":0" />