1. Still mirative after all these years.
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DELANCEY, SCOTT
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LINGUISTIC analysis , *CATEGORIZATION (Linguistics) , *EVIDENTIALS (Linguistics) , *INFORMATION theory , *INFLECTION (Grammar) , *SYNTAX (Grammar) - 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 outline [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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