Tyler Peterson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tyler Peterson plays a role.
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2019. Chapter 7. Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English. Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics, Depraz, Natalie and Agnès Celle (eds.), pp. 117–138
Verbal reactions to surprising situations or surprising information often include interrogative structures rather than exclamatives, contrary to what is assumed in traditional grammars. In such contexts, interrogatives combine requests for information and the expression of surprise (possibly… read more | Chapter
2017. Grammatical evidentiality and the unprepared mind. Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 51–89
The aim of this paper is to investigate how evidentials are used to reflect the unprepared mind of the speaker. Lexical evidentials are typically used by speakers to encode the kinds of evidence they have for making statements about states, events and actions they did not personally witness or were… read more | Article
2017. Problematizing mirativity. The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity, Celle, Agnès and Anastasios Tsangalidis (eds.), pp. 312–342
There are many excellent descriptions of mirativity in various language grammars, and more recently there has been a flurry of research refining mirativity to include how languages linguistically realize surprise and related concepts such as ‘unexpectedness’ and ‘new information’. However, there is… read more | Article
2015. Grammatical evidentiality and the unprepared mind. Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 314–352
The aim of this paper is to investigate how evidentials are used to reflect the unprepared mind of the speaker. Lexical evidentials are typically used by speakers to encode the kinds of evidence they have for making statements about states, events and actions they did not personally witness or were… read more | Article
2006. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case. Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 65–90
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