Third-group exclamatives, including those without an explicitly gradable element, cannot be denied by either strong or weak denial.

Evidence (3)

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Deniability evidence and the three-way German classification

cannot be denied, neither with strong ( #Nein! ‘ No ’ ) nor weak (# Nicht wirklich ‘ Not really ’ ) denial.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-2-p5

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Deniability evidence and the three-way German classification

cannot be denied, neither with strong ( #Nein! ‘ No ’ ) nor weak (# Nicht wirklich ‘ Not really ’ ) denial.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-2-p5

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Deniability evidence and the three-way German classification

cannot be denied, neither with strong ( #Nein! ‘ No ’ ) nor weak (# Nicht wirklich ‘ Not really ’ ) denial.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-2-p5

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