Exclamatives

This chapter is concerned with the semantics of exclamative constructions, a clause type which is increasingly receiving attention, but whose characterization is still hard to pin down. Its goal is to present an outlook into the main questions exclamatives raise, both for semantic theory and for an adequate empirical description. The chapter covers the key ingredients of exclamatives, which are illustrated with crosslinguistic data, as well as the analyses that have been proposed in the literature forwh‐exclamatives, nominal exclamatives, and embedded exclamatives. Finally, an inventory of exclamatory constructions that do not strictly speaking share the properties of the rest of exclamatives is taken into consideration.