Two types of wh-exclamatives

Rick Nouwen; Anna Chernilovskaya

doi:10.1075/lv.15.2.03nou

Two types of wh-exclamatives

Rick Nouwen
, Anna Chernilovskaya

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-224
Number of pages	24
Journal	Linguistic Variation Yearbook
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.15.2.03nou
Publication status	Published - 2015

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