This Dutch contrast suggests Type 1 exclamations, which do not ostensibly involve embedding and obey the degree constraint, versus Type 2 exclamations, which ostensibly involve embedding and do not obey it.

Evidence (3)

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

This at the very least suggests two di ff erent syntactic structures for exclamations.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p3

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

This at the very least suggests two di ff erent syntactic structures for exclamations.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p3

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

This at the very least suggests two di ff erent syntactic structures for exclamations.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p3

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