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Mirativity

In linguistics, mirativity, initially proposed by Scott DeLancey, is a grammatical category in a language, independent of evidentiality, that encodes the speaker's surprise or the unpreparedness of their mind. Grammatical elements that encode the semantic category of mirativity are called miratives (abbreviated .mw-parser-output…

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Mirativity

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples29
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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related to Further reading · 15
Mirativity → Connie, Dickinson, GN3M-TV78, Juha, Language, Linguistic Typology, Lingzi, Semantic Theory, Similarity, Studies, The Surprise Factor, Thesis, Tsafiki, Yliniemi, Zhuang
related to Coding of mirativity · 7
Mirativity → In Cantonese, In English, Intonation, Many, SFP, Some, Wow
related to Criticisms · 6
Mirativity → Aikhenvald, DeLancey, Hill, In Lhasa Tibetan, Lazard, This

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miratives surprise delancey grammatical category mirative evidentiality language evidential speaker languages may also information marker hill 'dug nga-r deb de

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an evidential or tense markerinstance ofpoints out that a mirative meaning may also be coded by using other grammatical devices0.80text
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativityMany0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativityWow0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativityIn English0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativityIntonation0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativitySome0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativitySFP0.60section
Mirativityrelated to Coding of mirativityIn Cantonese0.60section
Mirativityrelated to CriticismsAikhenvald0.60section
Mirativityrelated to CriticismsThis0.60section
Mirativityrelated to CriticismsLazard0.60section
Mirativityrelated to CriticismsHill0.60section

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