Exclamations as multi-dimensional intersubjective items

1. Exclamation as an isolating act Studies on exclamation usually start with the remark that this area is little explored. This is not true anymore. We now have a good deal of works on this topic, some of which are particularly influential, including Culioli (1974), Elliott (1974), Milner (1978), Martin (1987), Michaelis and Lambrecht (1996), d’Avis (2001), Zanuttini and Portner (2003), Castroviejo Miró (2006), Rett (2011). We know that exclamations have the following properties: They have an..