Wh-exclamatives are expressive degree intensification rather than an operator over propositions, which accounts for their requirement of extreme degrees.

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Wh-exclamatives are expressive degree intensification rather than an operator over propositions, which accounts for their requirement of extreme degrees.tested-undermined

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Observable morphosyntactic, prosodic, and meaning differences among exclamation types support distinct syntactic and semantic structures; the complex taxonomy of exclamations must be incorporated intountested-default

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