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Central semantic of values interrogative | exclamative | relative pronoun

Syntactic criterion

  1. Interrogative and relative pronouns enable phrasal expansions.

Test

Given P the main clause, E an expansion, X a pronoun, If X enables E, X can be an interrogative or a relative pronoun.

Pragmatic criterion

  1. Exclamative pronouns realize sentences with emotive or conative function.