A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195

Autores/as

  • Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva Universidade Federal do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195

Palabras clave:

Mirativity, double pronouns, intonational pattern, unexpected information, epistemic modality

Resumen

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.

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Biografía del autor/a

  • Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva, Universidade Federal do Pará
    Professora do Instituto de Letras e Comunicação, vinculada à Faculdade de Letras, da Universidade Federal do Pará.

Publicado

2011-08-08

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Sección

Linguística

Cómo citar

Ferreira-Silva, M. de N. (2011). A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 33(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195

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