Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads : Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez Rosique, Susana.

Contributor:

Universidad de Alicante, Funder.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.389

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Expressing surprise in Romance languages: Key pieces of an unresolved puzzle

Part 1: Mirativity and grammatical triggers

2 Mirativity in Spanish middle se constructions

3 Disconfirmational MICA in surprise questions (and some notes on concessivity)

Part 2: Mirativity and interrogatives

4 Interrogative constructions with santo, cuento, and cuenta: Rejection and mirativity

5 Mirativity in a nutshell: Expressing surprise through Spanish cómo

6 Mirativity in wh-in-situ questions in Spanish

Part 3: Mirativity and the semantic implications of the contrary-to-expectations sense

7 The mirative values of Italian altro che

8 Mirativity as a semantic notion: The trajectory and status of Sicilian bì

Part 4: The limits of mirativity

9 Old nominal exclamatives in a new light

10 Mirativity in Romance: Speaker-oriented vs. hearer-oriented expressions of unexpectedness

11 When evidentiality and mirativity meet: The case of ra’e in Paraguayan Guarani and Paraguayan Spanish

Index

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ISBN:

9783111386683

3111386686

OCLC:

1485004929