Emotive verbs do not objectively factively presuppose their complements, but their subject is doxastically committed to the complement proposition (subjective veridicality).

Evidence (3)

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

emotive verbs need not be veridical in the objective sense

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p5

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

emotive verbs need not be veridical in the objective sense

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p5

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

emotive verbs need not be veridical in the objective sense

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p5

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