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The main hypothesis of this paper is that certain exclamative constructions in Catalan (queexclamatives) involve a null exclamative degree operator. It is shown that, when combined with Kayne's (2002) insights concerning English preposition of and its French counterpart de, a principled and unified explanation follows not only for que-exclamatives but for the related com-exclamatives as well. Empirical and theoretical arguments are provided for deriving the presence of the marker de ('of') as a VP-external preposition from the existence of a quantificational structure, and that of the partitive clitic en/ne from the necessity of providing the null exclamative operator with a content.

In this paper a snapshot is offered of the state of the art in the research on exclamatives, reviewing our current understanding of "classic'' issues, like factivity, high degree, or the relationship between exclamatives and interrogatives, and highlighting new theoretical and empirical challenges, such as the contribution of exclamative sentences to a dynamic model of discourse or the placement of exclamative phrases in the left-periphery.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">In this paper the behavior of deadjectival nominalizations in Spanish is studied regarding the presence of an eventuality reading. It is shown that whereas abstract nominalizations (<em>la belleza del libro </em>&lsquo;the beauty of the book&rsquo;) clearly encode an eventuality according to standard tests, neuter nominalizations (<em>lo bello del libro</em> &lsquo;the beautiful part of the book&rsquo;) lack any eventuality reading altogether. It is argued that the difference lies in the different kind of nominalization process involved. As for abstract nominalizations, after the nominalizer is merged, the nominal functional head Classifier will encode the stative eventuality derived from the adjective root. In the case of neuter nominalizations, we lack any nominal functional structure, but rather the AP is directly selected by the neuter determiner, which, following a suggestion by McNally &amp; de Swart (2012), is the syntactic realization of Chierchia&rsquo;s (1982) </span>^{<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">&Ccedil;</span>}<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;" lang="EN-US"> (&lsquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">cap&rsquo;) operator, which shifts a property into its entity correlate. Moreover, a slight modification of this semantic operation allows a simple and principled analysis of the difference between the two main neuter deadjectival nominalizations.</span></p>