<b>A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195

  • Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva Universidade Federal do Pará
Palavras-chave: Mirativity, double pronouns, intonational pattern, unexpected information, epistemic modality

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Notions of evidentiality and mirativity are related; however there are aspects of each of them which indicate that mirativity is a distinct conceptual category. One issue is how languages encode these categories. The semantic domain of evidentiality refers to the source of knowledge behind assertions. In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, there is no specific category for evidentiality or mirativity, but there is a syntactic construction in one dialect of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibits mirative overtones. The main goal of this paper is to describe that construction, based on a functional semantic approach.

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Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva, Universidade Federal do Pará
Professora do Instituto de Letras e Comunicação, vinculada à Faculdade de Letras, da Universidade Federal do Pará.
Publicado
2011-08-08
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Ferreira-Silva, M. de N. (2011). <b>A mirative construction description: observations about an occurrence in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belém</b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 33(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i2.12195
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Linguística

 

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