Claim1926ba54cefb6d3f03d2e067fd6eee831c9b98512df65ef369c1950a911ff4b3·Paper reconstruction — Robert Wilhelmy et al. (2025), Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood

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An emotive-predicate assertion such as (20A), and likewise (22A), expresses the proposition that the speaker is surprised, and this proposition can be queried by the verification check.

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Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
This proposition can be questioned with (20B) to check whether the speaker is surprised.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p4
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
This proposition can be questioned with (20B) to check whether the speaker is surprised.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p4
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
This proposition can be questioned with (20B) to check whether the speaker is surprised.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p4

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