Claimd35af166b7ca7fd11101f7a3aa2796f5200f0f9100d70b75651cc68a2f87c6f8·Paper reconstruction — Sebastian Bücking (2025), Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions

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Their proposal treats a root exclamative as equivalent both to a subordinate clause embedded under an emotive predicate and to a declarative exclamation.

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Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Framing the dispute: exclamatives versus emotive assertions
examples such as (1a) are considered equivalent to subordinate clauses embedded under an emotive matrix predicate (1b) and also to declarative exclamations (1c)
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-1-p2
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Framing the dispute: exclamatives versus emotive assertions
examples such as (1a) are considered equivalent to subordinate clauses embedded under an emotive matrix predicate (1b) and also to declarative exclamations (1c)
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-1-p2
Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions — Framing the dispute: exclamatives versus emotive assertions
examples such as (1a) are considered equivalent to subordinate clauses embedded under an emotive matrix predicate (1b) and also to declarative exclamations (1c)
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2001#unit-1-p2

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