TaG challenge reported judgments that a response with no to an exclamative is ill-formed; English speakers they consulted reportedly had no trouble responding no to the relevant English exclamative.

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Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Reconstruction of TaG’s no-exclamation-force claim

English speakers we consulted find no trouble responding no to this sentence

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p5

Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Reconstruction of TaG’s no-exclamation-force claim

English speakers we consulted find no trouble responding no to this sentence

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-1-p5

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