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Central semantic of value exclamative pronoun

Pragmatic criterion

  1. Exclamative pronouns are pronouns that introduce sentences with emotive or conative function. They have also the type-value interrogative. The opposite is not true - all pronouns with the type-value interrogative cannot have the type-value exclamative (for example où).

Test

Given X a pronoun, P a sentence, If P has emotive or conative value, X has the type-value excl.