Contrary emotives such as be surprised and be amazed carry counterexpectation: the attitude holder believed the contrary immediately before and through utterance time.

Evidence (3)

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

carry a presupposition of disbelief

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p6

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

carry a presupposition of disbelief

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p6

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Greek evidence and the syntax-semantics of emotive assertions

carry a presupposition of disbelief

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-3-p6

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