A fully assimilative analysis of exclamatives as declaratives asserting propositions about attitudes is therefore unjustified; exclamatives
A fully assimilative analysis of exclamatives as declaratives asserting propositions about attitudes is therefore unjustified; exclamatives primarily express rather than assert affect about presupposed content.
Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force
Because affect intensity can dissociate from degree intensity, TG's null emotive-predicate analysis does not explain the required relation between intensified degree and emotivity; expressive intensification explains their convergence specifically in exclamatives.
The paper maintains that expressing affect must be distinguished from asserting affect.
The preceding assimilative proposal's core conceptual insight and compositional implementation are not clear to the author.
The primary purpose of exclamatives is to express affect, rather than to assert affect about presupposed content.