Emotive-predicate assertions are verifiable as claims about the speaker’s emotion, whereas exclamatives either lack that verification profile or are verified with respect to degree on a scale.
Even if deniability and answerhood were established, they would not prove that wh-exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions have identical descriptive content.
TaG's purported examples of exclamatives answering questions instead involve broad narration prompts, rather than information-seeking questions requiring direct answers.
The tell-me prompt in (17A) permits a broad range of narrative replies and does not require an answer in the narrow sense.
For the exclamative with the scale-indicating element schnell in (23A), the verification check questions Eliud Kipchoge's degree of speed rather than the speaker's emotion.
An emotive-predicate assertion such as (20A), and likewise (22A), expresses the proposition that the speaker is surprised, and this proposition can be queried by the verification check.
The broader prompt in (18A) can be matched by many narratives, including narratives in (19), so an exclamative's apparent suitability there does not show that it answers a question.
A wh-exclamative without a scale-indicating element, such as (21A), cannot undergo the same verification check and cannot be denied.
Paper reconstruction — Robert Wilhelmy et al. (2025), Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood