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Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages
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Edited by:
Susana Rodriguez Rosique
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Funded by:
Universidad de Alicante
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Open Access
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In this vein, the volume tries to answer questions such as to what extent do interactional contexts influence the development of mirative structures or how is the solidarity synchrony / diachrony reflected in mirative constructions.
Author / Editor information
Susana Rodríguez Rosique, Alicante, Spain.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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1 Expressing surprise in Romance languages: Key pieces of an unresolved puzzle
1 - Part 1: Mirativity and grammatical triggers
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2 Mirativity in Spanish middle se constructions
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3 Disconfirmational MICA in surprise questions (and some notes on concessivity)
39 - Part 2: Mirativity and interrogatives
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4 Interrogative constructions with santo, cuento, and cuenta: Rejection and mirativity
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5 Mirativity in a nutshell: Expressing surprise through Spanish cómo
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6 Mirativity in wh-in-situ questions in Spanish
121 - Part 3: Mirativity and the semantic implications of the contrary-to-expectations sense
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7 The mirative values of Italian altro che
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8 Mirativity as a semantic notion: The trajectory and status of Sicilian bì
179 - Part 4: The limits of mirativity
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9 Old nominal exclamatives in a new light
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10 Mirativity in Romance: Speaker-oriented vs. hearer-oriented expressions of unexpectedness
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11 When evidentiality and mirativity meet: The case of ra’e in Paraguayan Guarani and Paraguayan Spanish
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Index
281
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 27, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111386683
Hardcover published on:
January 27, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111386485
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
283
Illustrations:
30
Tables:
21
Keywords for this book
Surprise; Mirativity; Exclamativity; Insubordination; Modality; Romance Languages
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers, Teachers and Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Linguistics, Pragmatics or Romance Languages.
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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