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Publication details [#14293]

DeLancey, Scott. 2001. The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (3) : 369–382.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evidential | mirative | modality

Language as a subject

English | Hare | Tibetan, Lhasa

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

On the relationship between evidentiality and mirativity. Based on evidence from Tibetan, Hare, and English, a case is made for a distinct semantic and grammatical category of mirativity instead of it being analyzed as a larger category of evidentiality.