1. Perhaps mirativity is phlogiston, but admirativity is perfect: On Balkan evidential strategies.
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FRIEDMAN, VICTOR A.
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PHLOGISTON , *EVIDENTIALS (Linguistics) , *MEANING (Philosophy) , *MACEDONIAN language , *PARADIGM (Linguistics) , *CATEGORIZATION (Linguistics) , *GRAMMATICAL categories - Abstract
Albanian admiratives specify a complex of meanings including 'surprise', 'disbelief', and 'report'. "Non-confirmative" summarizes these in contrast to Macedonian's "confirmative". Macedonian synthetic preterites specify speaker confirmation, and Macedonian analytic preterites therefore include -but are not limited to - non-confirmation. Albanian synthetic pasts do not specify confirmativity, and admiratives specify a present (disbelief, report) or previous (surprise) state when the speaker would not confirm the event. The Albanian admirative is used where similar Balkan Slavic and Turkish paradigmatic sets are not. The category "mirative " is unnecessary for the Balkan languages, but "admirative " describes the specific intersection of non-confirmative meanings of Albanian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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