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Mirativity in Mandarin: The Sentence-Final Particle Le (了)
Open Linguistics, 2018 Mirativity is a distinct grammatical category. In the literature, no mirative marker has been identified so far in Mandarin Chinese. This paper aims to argue that Mandarin Chinese is a language that has grammatical means of expressing mirativity.
Hongmei Fang
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Rise and be surprised: Aspectual profiling and mirativity in Odia light verb constructions
Cognitive Linguistics, 2019 In this paper, we present our Construction Grammar account of light verb constructions in the Indo-Aryan language Odia (earlier known as Oriya). These light verb constructions are asymmetric complex verb predicates that combine a main verb (MV) with a ...
Maarten Lemmens, Kalyanamalini Sahoo
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From additivity to mirativity: The Cantonese sentence final particle tim1
Glossa, 2018 This paper studies the Cantonese sentence final particle tim1 and more generally the semantics of additive particles. The range of meanings conveyed by tim1 appears quite broad, covering both scalar and non-scalar additive readings as well as mirative ...
Daniel Tsz-Hin Lee +3 more
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Expressing Surprise A Cross-Linguistic Description of Mirativity
Altre Modernità, 2014 As I have argued elsewhere (Mocini 2009; 2011; 2013), emotions play a decisive role in promotional discourse. The power of logical argument may not be sufficient to convince customers. For this reason, writers or speakers usually appeal to the audience’s
Renzo Mocini
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Himalayan Linguistics, 2014 This paper explores the question of whether mirative meaning, in the sense of Aksu-Koc and Slobin’s (1986) “unprepared mind” and DeLancey (1997), is grammatically encoded in the Dardic language Shina. Mirativity marking in Shina’s linguistic neighbors is
E. Bashir
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Declarative Mirativity in Urdu: A Lexico-cognitive Account
Journal of English Language, Literature and Education, 2023 The present study seeks to characterize the strategic realization of mirativity as a semantic category with an empirical focus on Urdu language. The study addresses the research question: How do declaratives become miratives?
Jabir Hussain, Darzi Ali
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential: On the effects of focus in syntax
Glossa, 2021 The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement of a contrastive constituent to a dedicated, left-peripheral position.
Silvio Cruschina
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The multifunctionality of -o in Rukiga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper discusses the particle -o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun agreeing in noun class, reported in previous studies as an emphatic ...
Allen Asiimwe, Jenneke van der Wal
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A Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins of the Catalan go-past
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is unexpected.
Silvio Cruschina, Anna Kocher
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