Across Greek, German, and English, wh-exclamatives, that-exclamatives, and declarative exclamations are structurally and semantically allied
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abstract: Across Greek, German, and English, wh-exclamatives, that-exclamatives, and declarative exclamations are structurally and semantically allied with emotive-verb complements.
text: Across Greek, German, and English, wh-exclamatives, that-exclamatives, and declarative exclamations are structurally and semantically allied with emotive-verb complements.
date created: 2026-08-09T00:41:35.444Z
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Paper reconstruction — Andreas Trotzke & Anastasia Giannakidou (2024), Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion
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text: Across Greek, German, and English, wh-exclamatives, that-exclamatives, and declarative exclamations are structurally and semantically allied with emotive-verb complements.

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text: Among Greek complementizers, only pu occurs after verbs of emotion; Greek exclamatives therefore resemble complements selected by emotive verbs.

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text: Emotive verbs do not objectively factively presuppose their complements, but their subject is doxastically committed to the complement proposition (subjective veridicality).

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text: The Greek ti-plus-adjective pattern is not an ordinary degree-question form: neutral degree questions require poso ‘how much’, and are incompatible with pu.

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text: Greek wh-exclamatives use ti ‘what’ plus an adjective and the complementizer pu; pu is optional but strongly preferred in this construction.

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text: Exclamatives can have descriptive/assertive content and can answer information-seeking questions when the information-structural and discourse context makes that content the main point.

https://www.isonomia.app/c/d252cbde8ed9fac46caac2e9bc080923a060fc807178d9404f670020ca176704
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text: Contrary emotives such as be surprised and be amazed carry counterexpectation: the attitude holder believed the contrary immediately before and through utterance time.

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text: German embedded word order, dass distribution, the contrast with ob-interrogatives, and modal-particle distribution support treating German exclamatives as elliptical emotive-matrix structures and as non-interrogative emotive assertions.

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