Comparative Concept: mirative (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
mirative (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | mirative |
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Definition
a speaker attitude of surprise toward the propositional content in the speaker's utterance. Example: Lhasa Tibetan has a distinct construction for expressing the mirative function with the form 'dug: nga-rdngul tog=tsam 'dug 'I have some money' expresses not only that the speaker has money, but that she is surprised to find this out. (Sections 12.1, 12.5.2)