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A STUDY OF MIRATIVITY IN JAPANESE AND TURKISH [PDF]
Mirativity (Hayret olgusu), dilbilim tipolojisinde nispeten yeni ve dikkate değer bir kavramdır. Mirativ ifadelerin birçok dilde kanıtsallık ile dilbilgisel bir bağlantısı bulunmazken, diğer dillerde kişi ve görünüş işaretleyicileri yeni bilgi,
Özbek, Aydın, Kıra, Esra
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Mirativity in English response particles: An analysis from the syntax/semantics interface
Responses to questions can provide significant insight about linguistic structure and meaning. In this paper, I propose an analysis of the structure of assertions and various responses to assertions, bringing together semantic and syntactic ...
Martinez, Randi
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication. [PDF]
Mollica F +5 more
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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The linguistic coding of information as being unexpected, is referred to as the ‘mirative’. Since DeLancey (1997) established mirativity as a cross-linguistic category its presence in languages of the world is growing.
Hyslop, Gwendolyn
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Evidentiality, Inferentiality and Mirativity in the Modern Hindi
Evidentiality, Inferentiality and Mirativity in the Modern Hindi The questions of Evidentiality, Inferentiality and Mirativity in Hindi have not been thoroughly investigated so far. So the proposed description in no way can be exhaustive, and the results
Alexander A. Sigorskiy
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Tense, evidentiality and mirativity in Paraguayan Guaraní and Contact Spanish: ra’e and había sido [PDF]
En guaraní paraguayo y otras variedades de esta lengua existe un morfema libre ra’e que presenta valores de evidencial indirecto, mirativo y pasado, aunque con frecuentes contraejemplos en los que prima facie la evidencia aparece como directa, la ...
Carol, Javier Jerónimo +1 more
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Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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