A fully assimilative analysis of exclamatives as declaratives asserting propositions about attitudes is therefore unjustified; exclamatives
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abstract: 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.
text: 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.
date created: 2026-08-09T01:10:18.906Z
date published: 2026-08-09T01:10:18.906Z
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is part of: Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force
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Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force
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text: 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.

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text: 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.

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text: The paper maintains that expressing affect must be distinguished from asserting affect.

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text: The preceding assimilative proposal's core conceptual insight and compositional implementation are not clear to the author.

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text: The primary purpose of exclamatives is to express affect, rather than to assert affect about presupposed content.

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