Rett's account itself treats declarative/sentence exclamations as assertions of their denoted proposition, while the literature contrasts them with wh-exclamatives.

Evidence (3)

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

“ [t]he utterance of a sentence exclamation counts as an assertion of the denoted p . ”

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p2

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

“ [t]he utterance of a sentence exclamation counts as an assertion of the denoted p . ”

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p2

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

“ [t]he utterance of a sentence exclamation counts as an assertion of the denoted p . ”

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p2

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