Russian Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations also differ in epistemic and affective meaning: Type 1 requires old or reactivated information and cannot convey immediate surprise at newly acquired information, while Type 2 occurs in information-acquisition contexts.

Evidence (2)

In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Typological complexity: Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations

Type 2 sentences are always uttered in information acquisition contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p6

In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Typological complexity: Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations

Type 2 sentences are always uttered in information acquisition contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p6

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