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This document presents a semantic analysis of mirative evidentials across languages. It discusses how mirative evidentials can mark both speaker surprise (mirativity) and indirect evidence, with the interpretation depending on contextual or propositional factors. It proposes that mirative evidentials invoke a contextually salient set of propositions E, and that the indirect and mirative interpretations are conditioned by the relationship between the speech event and the event where the speaker learned the p
- Author
- A. Kamariah
- Language
- EN