TaG claim that wh-exclamatives perform emotive assertions akin to present-tense declaratives containing emotive predicates such as be amazed or be surprised, with very similar truth conditions and presuppositions.

Evidence (2)

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Reconstruction of TaG’s no-exclamation-force claim

wh-exclamatives are used to perform emotive assertions akin to assertions of declarative sentences containing emotive predicates such as be amazed, be surprised in the present tense, and have very similar truth conditions and presuppositions

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p1

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Reconstruction of TaG’s no-exclamation-force claim

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p1

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