Claim68938db136de36d890ddfa4425ec6692e4e8b2ac9f17216409efd7123f0702da·Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force

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The degree constraint permits exclamations about high degrees, such as “How smart she is!” and “What a story!”, but not affective exclamations about a person or the fact of their coming, such as “Who came!”.

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In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Typological complexity: Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations
exclamatives have to be about degrees
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p1
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Typological complexity: Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations
exclamatives have to be about degrees
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p1
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Typological complexity: Type 1 and Type 2 exclamations
exclamatives have to be about degrees
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-4-p1

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