A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195Keywords:
Mirativity, double pronouns, intonational pattern, unexpected information, epistemic modalityAbstract
Notions of evidentiality and mirativity are related; however there are aspects of each of them which indicate that mirativity is a distinct conceptual category. One issue is how languages encode these categories. The semantic domain of evidentiality refers to the source of knowledge behind assertions. In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, there is no specific category for evidentiality or mirativity, but there is a syntactic construction in one dialect of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibits mirative overtones. The main goal of this paper is to describe that construction, based on a functional semantic approach.Downloads
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2011-08-08
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A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém. (2011). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 33(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195
