Gipper2014
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Gipper2014 |
| Author(s) | Sonja Gipper |
| Title | From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extension |
| Editor(s) | Evie Cousse, Ferdinand von Mengden |
| Tag(s) | Interactional Linguistics |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 83–116 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/sfsl.69.04gip |
| ISBN | 9789027215796 |
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| Series | Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics |
| Howpublished | |
| Book title | Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change |
| Chapter | 4 |
Abstract
In Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia), the inferential evidential =tiba has a secondary use in a mirative construction marking unexpected information. This paper proposes that the synchronic interactional uses of =tiba plausibly reflect a diachronic process, namely an emerging semantic extension from inferential to mirative. It is argued that interactional structure is the driving force behind this semantic extension of =tiba, which demonstrates the importance of interactional structure as a factor in language change.
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