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# Poster Presentation for "What I will tell you about "matrix" wh-"exclamatives"!"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Esipova, Maria (2021).
  Poster Presentation for "What I will tell you about "matrix" wh-"exclamatives"!".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Poster. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481285


Corresponding Author:
  Maria Esipova, University of Oslo, masha.esipova@nyu.edu


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481285



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## Summary

This poster was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the
West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).

  

Provided abstract:

While strings of both 'How smart she is!' (Type 1) and 'Who came!' (Type 2)
kind are grammatical in Russian (unlike English, where only Type 1 is OK), I
show that the two differ in their form (prosody) and meaning (affective and
epistemic). I propose that Type 1 sentences are exclamatives (sentences with
special syntax whose primary goal is to express immediate affect), but Type 2
are interrogatives embedded under a mirative predicate, more akin to English
'{Look/you won't believe} who came!'.  



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401