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mirativity: a standalone construct

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Semantics

the grammatical marking of information as new or unexpected to the speaker, treated as a category distinct from evidentiality.

In semantics, mirativity refers to the grammatical marking of information as new or unexpected to the speaker, treated as a category distinct from evidentiality. This meaning comes from Delancey (1997) in Linguistic Typology.[1]

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References

Delancey, S. (1997). Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information. Linguistic Typology, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1997.1.1.33

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