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The Right Edge of Exclamative Sentences in Catalan [PDF]

, 2001
In the paper it is argued that certain exclamative constructions apparently involving right-dislocation of an adjective must be analyzed as having it in situ, forming a small clause with a null exclamative operator.
Villalba, Xavier
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Whether-exclamatives: a verum strategy

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023
Verum has been attested in declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives. In this paper, we show that whether-exclamatives, a subtype of exclamatives, also qualify as a verum strategy, thus showing that the phenomenon ranges across all sentence moods ...
Amido Sara, Buchczyk Sebastian
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Cº realizations along the left edge across English and Spanish

Languages, 2023
This paper investigates the lexicalization of the complementizer that/que in English and Spanish varieties in different contexts along the left edge of the clause.
Julio Villa-García
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Prosodic Prominence in Polar Questions and Exclamatives

Frontiers in Communication, 2020
This study investigates prosodic prominence in string-identical verb-first exclamatives and questions in German. It presents results from three production experiments comparing polar exclamatives/questions with different finite verbs [auxiliary, lexical ...
Sophie Repp, Heiko Seeliger
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Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force [PDF]

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020
Portuguese exhibits a great variety of wh-exclamative sentences, including sentential exclamatives, which are the main concern of this paper. Brazilian Portuguese sentential wh-exclamatives seem to provide evidence to propose a split Force in the ...
Paulo Medeiros Junior, Pedro Luiz Moraes Sieiro   +1 more
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Information-structural surprises? Contrast, givenness, and (the lack of) accent shift and deaccentuation in non-assertive speech acts

Laboratory Phonology, 2023
It is well-established for assertions that the information-structural status of referents influences prosodic prominence: givenness reduces and contrastive focus increases prominence.
Heiko Seeliger, Sophie Repp
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Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022
The article aims to analyse exclamatives as means of expressing emotions in dialogical discourse through the Speech Acts Theory. In particular, it dwells upon the representation of the Universal Emotion by the sub-classes of speech acts on the material ...
Lapka Olha
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Si je t’aime ! Régimes insubordonnés [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2022
L’étude porte sur les constructions exclamatives « insubordonnées » du type Si je t’aime ! Au plan syntaxique, nous montrons que les si p interrogatives indirectes isolées conduisent à deux analyses syntaxiques concurrentes : si certaines si p ...
Corminboeuf Gilles, Monney Matthieu
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«¡La de + N + que…!» The Feminine Definite Article in Spanish Exclamative Clauses

Languages, 2023
The present study explores the exclamative use of the feminine definite article la in structures such as ‘¡La de chicos que besé en la fiesta!’ (How many guys I kissed at the party!).
Juan José Arias
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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]

, 2013
Based on Brandtler (2012), this paper argues that polarity items are sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange.
Brandtler, Johan
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