CONCLUSION The reasons why they should not be seen as EXCLAMATIVES are that they are not scalar and
do not express deviations from norms. I call them EMOTIVES. There seem to exist a number of
borderline cases between exclamatives and emotives. I think, however, that it is possible, but
difficult, to distinguish between exclamatives and emotives in this way, building on Rosengren’s
(1997) definition of an exclamative.
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