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Still mirative after all these years
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Delancey, Scott |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Abstract This article re-presents the case, first presented in DeLancey (1997), for the mirative as a crosslinguistic category, and responds to critiques of that work by Gilbert Lazard and Nathan Hill. The nature of the mirative, a category which marks a statement as representing information which is new or unexpected, is exemplified with data from Kham (Tibeto-Burman) and Hare (Athabaskan). The mirative category is shown to be distinct from the well-known mediative or indirective evidential category. Finally, the role of mirativity in the complex verbal systems of Tibetan languages is briefly outlined. |
| Starting Page | 529 |
| Ending Page | 564 |
| Page Count | 36 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1515/lity-2012-0020 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~ivano/SemBabble/Material/DeLancey2012_StillMirativeAfterAllTheseYears.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1515/lity-2012-0020 |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
