For the Kipchoge example, the analysis includes assertion of amazement or surprise, a subjective-veridicality presupposition that the speaker believes Kipchoge ran extremely fast, and a counter-expectation presupposition that the speaker did not expect this.
Evidence (5)
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
I didn ’ t expect Kipchoge to run extremely fast.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p5
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
I didn ’ t expect Kipchoge to run extremely fast.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p5
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
I didn ’ t expect Kipchoge to run extremely fast.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p5
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
I didn ’ t expect Kipchoge to run extremely fast.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p5
The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Restatement and clarification of the target framework
I didn ’ t expect Kipchoge to run extremely fast.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-1-p5
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