Castroviejo judges that declarative, elliptical exclamative, and non-elliptical emotive-assertion responses are all felicitous both to a question about descriptive content and to one about emotional state; the authors agree with this judgment.

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The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Judgment disagreement and the case for experimental evidence

We agree with her judgment that not only the non-elliptical version in (8d), but also the elliptical version in (8c) as well as the declarative in (8b) would be felicitous responses.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-3-p5

The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Judgment disagreement and the case for experimental evidence

We agree with her judgment that not only the non-elliptical version in (8d), but also the elliptical version in (8c) as well as the declarative in (8b) would be felicitous responses.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-3-p5

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