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- Title
¡No se me había ocurrido nunca! Una construcción admirativa de pluscuamperfecto en español.
- Authors
Soto, Guillermo; Olguín, Nicolás
- Abstract
Mirativity refers to the grammatical marking of unexpected information. More precisely, it is the linguistic expression of the surprise which unexpected information provokes in the speaker. Mirativity can be codified as an overt or a covert grammatical category, and as an optional or an obligatory category, depending on the grammar of the language. There are no mirative morphemes in Spanish language; nevertheless, a corpus study of Internet message boards written in Chilean Spanish shows that clauses such as ¡No se me había ocurrido nunca! can be described as a mirative construction. This construction presents specific constraints on type of predicate, predication frame, information structure and illocutionary force.
- Subjects
CHILE; SPANISH language -- Terms &; phrases; SURPRISE; SENTENCES (Grammar); SPANISH language -- Usage
- Publication
Onomázein, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0717-1285
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7764/onomazein.22.04