Claim6d2abe78bafb0644567f84ab3bf26652be5b15ce771a018bf59948d3d88b3325·Paper reconstruction — Sebastian Bücking (2025), Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions

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Verb-fronted exclamatives exist and cannot be embedded under an emotive predicate.

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Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Internal form: verb position, complementizer choice, and discourse particles

These examples prohibit embedding under an emotive predicate

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-4-p4

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