German embedded word order, dass distribution, the contrast with ob-interrogatives, and modal-particle distribution support treating German exclamatives as elliptical emotive-matrix structures and as non-interrogative emotive assertions.

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German embedded word order, dass distribution, the contrast with ob-interrogatives, and modal-particle distribution support treating German exclamatives as elliptical emotive-matrix structures and as untested-default

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