The German and Greek data led to the syntactic claim that the relevant structures contain ellipsis of a higher emotive predicate and are embedded under a higher assertive predicate rather than instantiating an exclamative clause type.

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The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
those structures do not instantiate a distinct clause type called ‘ exclamative ’ , but are con fi gurations embedded under a higher assertive predicate
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p6
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
those structures do not instantiate a distinct clause type called ‘ exclamative ’ , but are con fi gurations embedded under a higher assertive predicate
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p6
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
those structures do not instantiate a distinct clause type called ‘ exclamative ’ , but are con fi gurations embedded under a higher assertive predicate
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p6
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
those structures do not instantiate a distinct clause type called ‘ exclamative ’ , but are con fi gurations embedded under a higher assertive predicate
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p6
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
those structures do not instantiate a distinct clause type called ‘ exclamative ’ , but are con fi gurations embedded under a higher assertive predicate
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p6

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