Origo orientation does not behave like a cancellable implicature: in example (20c), a context that should force a [-origo] interpretation makes the exclamative completely impossible.
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Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Origo dependence, free indirect discourse, and the nature of exclamative attitude
the putative implicature cannot be canceled by an appropriate context
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-5-p5
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Origo dependence, free indirect discourse, and the nature of exclamative attitude
the putative implicature cannot be canceled by an appropriate context
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-5-p5
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Origo dependence, free indirect discourse, and the nature of exclamative attitude
the putative implicature cannot be canceled by an appropriate context
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-5-p5
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