For the exclamative with the scale-indicating element schnell in (23A), the verification check questions Eliud Kipchoge's degree of speed rather than the speaker's emotion.
Evidence (3)
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
Questioned is the degree of Eliud Kipchoge ’ s speed, not the speaker ’ s emotion.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p6
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
Questioned is the degree of Eliud Kipchoge ’ s speed, not the speaker ’ s emotion.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p6
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
Questioned is the degree of Eliud Kipchoge ’ s speed, not the speaker ’ s emotion.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p6
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