A semantic account of mirative evidentials  

Oleh:

Rett, Jessica ; Murray, Sarah E.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3 - 5, 2013, page 453–472.
Topik: evidentials; exclamation; mirativity; illocutionary mood
Fulltext: 3695-7402-1-PB.pdf (158.92KB)

Isi artikel

Many if not all evidential languages have a mirative evidential: an indirect evidential that can, in some contexts, mark mirativity (the expression of speaker surprise) instead of indirect evidence. We address several questions posed by this systematic polysemy: What is the af?nity between indirect evidence and speaker surprise? What conditions the two interpretations? And how do mirative evidentials relate to other mirative markers? We propose a uni?ed analysis of mirative evidentials where indirect evidentiality and mirativity involve a common epistemic component. A mirative interpretation requires a close temporal proximity between the speech event and the event of the speaker’s learning the at-issue content.

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