I identify a class of expressions called 'emotive markers,'exemplified by fortunately and alas,
which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker's emotive attitude towards the …

Many languages of the world feature wh-exclamatives, and some of them also exhibit that-
configurations that can be used as root clauses expressing an exclamatory speech act; the …

I argue that, in a more nuanced typology of not-at-issue content that differentiates between
descriptive and illocutionary not-at-issue content, expressives belong in a category with …