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SOTO, Guillermo  y  HASLER, Felipe. Two types of admiring construction: Approach to the ways of codifying surprise from the grammaticalization perspective. Estud. filol. [online]. 2015, n.56, pp.147-159. ISSN 0071-1713.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0071-17132015000200009.

Mirativity has been defined as the semantic category dealing with the surprise provoked in the speaker by the information a proposition conveys (DeLancey 1997, 2001). In other work (Soto y Hasler 2013) mirativity has been characterized as a subjective category constituted by two eventualities: the narrated eventuality and the surprise provoked by this eventuality. In the present work, we propose that there are two primary ways in which mirativity is codified: the Ser way, that expresses lexically the unexpected acquisition of some information using a verb of perception or cognition, and the Er way, that expresses lexically the narrated eventuality and marks grammatically the surprise it provokes in the speaker or the listener. There is a grammatical admirative category only in the latter case.

Palabras clave : mirativity; subjectivity; epistemic domain; linguistic tipology.

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