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La interacció entre coordinació i ordre VSO en dos tipus d’exclamatives sense gradació [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2013
Aquest article estudia dos tipus diferents d’estructures en indicatiu que tenen inversió subjecte-verb i que no han rebut gaire atenció en els estudis sobre l’ordre VS al portuguès europeu.
Ana Maria Martins
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Deconstructing Exclamations [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008
While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation.
Elena Castroviejo Miró
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Exclamation in Late Archaic Chinese

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2023
Exclamation is constituted of sentence exclamations and exclamatives. Sentence exclamations in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC) are expressives asserting denoted propositions, parallel to their counterparts in modern Mandarin.
Aiqing Wang
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Exclamatives: A Thematic Guide with Many Questions and Few Answers [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008
In this paper a snapshot is offered of the state of the art in the research on exclamatives, reviewing our current understanding of “classic’’ issues, like factivity, high degree, or the relationship between exclamatives and interrogatives, and ...
Xavier Villalba
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Exclaiming non-sententially: exclamative sluices and the (non-elliptical) nature of ellipsis constructions

Glossa, 2023
Exclamative sluices (What a goal!, How odd!) have not been part of the debate on the nature of ellipsis constructions. As we show here their profile is quite different from the usual suspects, VP ellipsis and interrogative sluicing – they occur much more
Jonathan Ginzburg, Jong-Bok Kim
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The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers [PDF]

Linguistics, 2023
This article argues that the [+distal] feature of demonstrative that is also present in complementizer that, and has not bleached away. In particular, we argue that complementizer that is referential: it refers to an element in the Shared Discourse Space
Staps Camil, Rooryck Johan
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Spanish Root Exclamatives at the Syntax/Semantics Interface [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008
In this paper several aspects of the syntax and semantics of Spanish root exclamatives are analyzed. Assuming a multi-layered approach to the CP projection, it is argued that a degree feature is checked in the Focus layer and that the exclamative feature
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
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On older northern Basque exclamatives in "ala" [PDF]

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008
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Georges Rebuschi
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Challenging exclamations! [PDF]

Theoretical Linguistics
Abstract This comment on Trotzke and Giannikadou’s target paper entitled “Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion” addresses the question as to how the balance between descriptive information and emotional expressivity in sentences like How hard John works! and John works so hard!
Ad Foolen
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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items [PDF]

, 2008
This paper studies the island effects induced by negation in exclamative sentences. In order to explain this phenomenon, I focus on the interaction between exclamative wh-phrases and negation, showing that negation can appear in exclamative sentences ...
González Rodríguez, Raquel
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