Claim0e98026901303c90de4f5442da28b7bb4c922d80916f644fe2ded69c12a9eec0·Paper reconstruction — Robert Wilhelmy et al. (2025), Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood
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TaG claim that wh-exclamatives are semantically equivalent to declarative emotive assertions and therefore do not instantiate a distinct illocutionary force of exclamation.
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- Key aspects of TaG's argumentation remain unsubstantiated, so their thesis requires further detailed analysis and a broader empirical foundation.untested-supported
- Even if deniability and answerhood were established, they would not prove that wh-exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions have identical descriptive content.untested-supported
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