Adverbial attachment and anaphoric relations cannot access an emotive predicate in exclamatives, unlike in emotive assertions, which argues against a silent emotive matrix predicate.

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Adverbial attachment and anaphoric relations cannot access an emotive predicate in exclamatives, unlike in emotive assertions, which argues against a silent emotive matrix predicate.untested-default

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