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The mirative and scalar meaning of even
Anglophonia, 2018 The analysis I develop here draws on the concept of mirativity (DeLancey 1987) and on Kay’s (1990) insight into the scalar nature of even. I show that even calls for the reconstruction of an implicit scale, on which the element highlighted by this ...
Olivier Simonin
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Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the semantic and syntactic properties of all-clefts (All I ate for dinner was a salad). The main characteristic of all-clefts is the inference that what is designated by the cleft is not much (the “smallness ...
Jos Tellings
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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019 The interrogative element cómo ‘how’ of Spanish has a double meaning: that of manner and that causal. With the former, it behaves like a typical interrogative element, but, with the latter, its behavior manifests the specificities of por qué ‘why’.
Bernat Castro López
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Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview
Open Linguistics, 2018 In this introductory paper, we will briefly introduce FDG and its treatment of systems of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, polarity, mirativity and localization, as well as their lexical counterparts.
Hengeveld Kees, Olbertz Hella
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Новые исследования Тувы, 2020 The article presents a comparative analysis of secondary forms that are based on semantically and functionally correlated participial forms in the Yakut and Tuvan languages.
Gavril G. Filippov, Bailak Ch. Oorzhak
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The Surprise Factor: A Semantic Theory of Mirativity
, 2023 This dissertation is a systematic study of the semantics of mirativity, a descriptive category for surprise-related meanings and their expression in natural language.
Zhuang, Lingzi
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Journal of Iranian LinguisticsMirativity, as a distinct grammatical category, could be marked by different markers and strategies. In this paper, it is argued that, contrary to previous studies, Persian marks mirativity by using morphosyntactic forms.
Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand
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Diagnostic Potential of miR-126, miR-143, miR-145, and miR-652 in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma [PDF]
The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2014 Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is difficult to distinguish from reactive mesothelial proliferations (RMPs). It is uncertain whether miRNAs are useful biomarkers for differentiating MPM from RMPs. Thus, we screened with a quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR)-based platform the expression of 742 miRNAs in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded, preoperative ...
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, 2023 Un hablante reconoce un neologismo porque, en un contexto dado, su innovación formal o semántica atrae toda su atención frente al resto de la información lingüística y su desviación con respecto a lo conocido le genera sorpresa. Estos dos conceptos clave
Lavale-Ortiz, Ruth Mª.
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‘Hot news’ and perfect change: mirativity and the semantics/pragmatics interface
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018 This paper proposes an analysis of the hot news Present Perfect (PP) building on Nishiyama & Koenig’s (2010) analysis of the perfect as denoting a perfect state introduced by a variable that needs to be pragmatically enriched.
Marie-Eve Ritz
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