Claim32c64c3d510f4b50f78e64286621c977456fc789391ad02746559284398ab513·Paper reconstruction — Robert Wilhelmy et al. (2025), Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood

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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.

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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
(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

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