Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives

<div><i>Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives</i> is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume each by a leading specialist on the topic scrutinize the syntax-as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects-of exclamations on theoretical grounds.<br> The book begins by summarizing commenting on and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types along with an analysis of their main properties. Special attention is devoted in the book throughoutto the syntactic structures displayed by exclamative patterns; the differences between exclamations and other speech acts (specifically questions and imperatives); the peculiar semantic denotation of exclamative words and their relationship to quantifiers denoting high degree; the semantics of adjectives and adverbs expressing extreme evaluation; the form and interpretation of negated and embedded exclamatives; the properties of optative utterances; and the different ways in which expressive contents are related to unexpected reactions of the speaker as well as possible knowledge shared by interlocutors.<br> This groundbreaking volume provides a complete and accurate picture of Spanish exclamation by integrating its numerous component parts.<br>  </div>