Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is a critical evaluation of the FDG claim that Mirativity is a Basic Illocution (cf. e.g. Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2008). The view presented here is that Mirativity is a semantic concept, while "Mirative Illocution" is in fact Exclamative Illocution. On the basis of data from Ecuadorian Highland Spanish, which has both a grammaticalized Mirative and a grammaticalized Exclamative, it is shown that there are a number of systematic differences between Mirative and Exclamative utterances. The paper ends with an alternative proposal of how to account for these two concepts within FDG.
Author: Hella Olbertz
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2153823905