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The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives

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Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

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Portner, P., Zanuttini, R. (2005). The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives. In: Elugardo, R., Stainton, R.J. (eds) Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech. En]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2301-4_3

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