TaG identify two central data points cited for the opposing view that exclamations lack assertive force: their descriptive content is allegedly not directly deniable, and exclamatives allegedly cannot be used as answers to information-seeking questions.

Evidence (2)

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

(i) the descriptive content of exclamations is said to not be (directly) deniable; and (ii) exclamatives, unlike declaratives, have been claimed to not be used as answers to information-seeking questions

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p4

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p4

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