Mirative meanings (surprise, sudden awareness, high degree, polemic) have recently been described as distinct from evidentiality. Languages with evidential markers such as Nepali or Kalasha, Khowar are already known to have grammaticized the expression of such meanings. Hindi/Urdu, which have no specific marker, displays non the less a wide sets of such meanings systematically attached with its aorist (the simple form used for narrative past). The paper attempts to test the claim that mirativity is a category distinct from evidentiality, a claim supported by such languages that attach mirative extensions to verbal forms other than evidentials. I will first define the standard meanings of the –yâ/-â form, argue in favour of the aoristic beha...
The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urd...
International audienceTaking Hindi presumptive modality as a case study, this paper argues that moda...
In this dissertation, I examine mirative constructions in Spanish and Albanian, in which past tense ...
Mirative meanings (surprise, sudden awareness, high degree, polemic) have recently been described as...
Mirative meanings (surprise, sudden awareness, high degree, polemic) have recently been described as...
1Plungian (2001:355) says that "the recurrent polysemy of admirative and inferential and/or quo...
International audienceAlthough the term aorist has not been frequently used in the various grammars ...
The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery, surprise, and...
Many if not all evidential languages have a mirative evidential: an indirect evidential that can, in...
Abstract Many if not all evidential languages have a mirative evidential: an indirect evidential tha...
A number of different semantic and pragmatic factors govern the usage of compound verbs in Hindi/Urd...
DeLancey (2012: 539) draws attention to the morpheme lõ in Hare as the touchstone of a putative 'mir...
While evidentiality is neither systematically nor obligatorily signaled in Indo-Aryan Palula [phl; p...
The linguistic coding of information as being unexpected, is referred to as the ‘mirative’. Since D...
National audienceThis paper aims at checking the relevance of the notion of salience in relation wit...
The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urd...
International audienceTaking Hindi presumptive modality as a case study, this paper argues that moda...
In this dissertation, I examine mirative constructions in Spanish and Albanian, in which past tense ...
Mirative meanings (surprise, sudden awareness, high degree, polemic) have recently been described as...
Mirative meanings (surprise, sudden awareness, high degree, polemic) have recently been described as...
1Plungian (2001:355) says that "the recurrent polysemy of admirative and inferential and/or quo...
International audienceAlthough the term aorist has not been frequently used in the various grammars ...
The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery, surprise, and...
Many if not all evidential languages have a mirative evidential: an indirect evidential that can, in...
Abstract Many if not all evidential languages have a mirative evidential: an indirect evidential tha...
A number of different semantic and pragmatic factors govern the usage of compound verbs in Hindi/Urd...
DeLancey (2012: 539) draws attention to the morpheme lõ in Hare as the touchstone of a putative 'mir...
While evidentiality is neither systematically nor obligatorily signaled in Indo-Aryan Palula [phl; p...
The linguistic coding of information as being unexpected, is referred to as the ‘mirative’. Since D...
National audienceThis paper aims at checking the relevance of the notion of salience in relation wit...
The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urd...
International audienceTaking Hindi presumptive modality as a case study, this paper argues that moda...
In this dissertation, I examine mirative constructions in Spanish and Albanian, in which past tense ...