Ricardo Maldonado
1) Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads: Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or -expressed differently- to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In...