The authors maintain that degree wh-exclamatives can instead be analyzed as assertions, without an additional exclamation force.

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The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Exclaiming as pervasive modification rather than a distinct force or clause type

they can actually be analyzed in terms of one of the three major forces

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p5

The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Exclaiming as pervasive modification rather than a distinct force or clause type

they can actually be analyzed in terms of one of the three major forces

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p5

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