I like that damn paper – Three comments on Christopher Potts' The expressive dimension.

The article refers to "The centrality of expressive indices," by Christopher Potts, and to the expressive dimension in linguistic theory. The commentary focuses on the accessibility and non-accessibility of expressive content in relation to descriptive meanings, the internal structure of expressive indices, and the semantics of discourse particles relative to emotional language. Examples include a negative interpretation of descriptive content, or the word "bastard," when the term is in a syntactic predicate position. The type-shift account and syntax-semantics interface are mentioned.