Their elliptical assertive-matrix analysis is only proposed for verb-final/embedded wh-exclamatives such as German (4a), not for V2 forms such as (4b).

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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

We have not claimed that our syntactic analysis for (4a), with verbfi nal/embedded word order, should also hold for (4b)

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p6

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

We have not claimed that our syntactic analysis for (4a), with verbfi nal/embedded word order, should also hold for (4b)

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p6

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