Two types of wh-exclamatives

Rick Nouwen; Anna Chernilovskaya

doi:10.1075/lv.15.2.03nou

ISSN 2211-6834
E-ISSN: 2211-6842

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Two types of wh-exclamatives
Author(s): Rick Nouwen and Anna Chernilovskaya
Source: Linguistic Variation, Volume 15, Issue 2, Jan 2015, p. 201 - 224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.15.2.03nou

Abstract

We study a particular aspect of the semantics of matrix wh-exclamatives. In particular, we focus on the relation between fairly straightforward morpho-syntactic properties of such structures and the kind of scalar meanings they express. We identify two types of wh-exclamatives: two distinct types of structures with two distinct types of scalar meaning. Languages differ with respect to which wh expressions serve in which of the two types.

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Keyword(s): Exclamatives; questions; scalarity; semantics

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