Claim339f19e2a62d041a37028aea3f7b38b02cb60a2c3b0de1162636aaea43590566·Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force

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Because affect intensity can dissociate from degree intensity, TG's null emotive-predicate analysis does not explain the required relation between intensified degree and emotivity; expressive intensification explains their convergence specifically in exclamatives.

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Because affect intensity can dissociate from degree intensity, TG's null emotive-predicate analysis does not explain the required relation between intensified degree and emotivity; expressive intensiftested-survived

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