Claimbb22e65d97a065abc6c05e363f8677b702b0262c899d7bd0da3d985aabe6ddfc·Paper reconstruction — Robert Wilhelmy et al. (2025), Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood

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A wh-exclamative without a scale-indicating element, such as (21A), cannot undergo the same verification check and cannot be denied.

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Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
The wh -exclamative (21A) cannot be questioned in the same way as (20).
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p5
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
The wh -exclamative (21A) cannot be questioned in the same way as (20).
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p5
Exclamatives, deniability, and answerhood — Semantic non-equivalence of exclamatives and emotive-predicate assertions
The wh -exclamative (21A) cannot be questioned in the same way as (20).
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2006#unit-4-p5

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