Projekt B4 in SFB 1718: Cognition - Grammar - Communication
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Sarah Dessì Schmid (Universität Tübingen) und Prof. Dr. Evelyn Wiesinger (Universität Regensburg)
DFG-Förderung: 2025-2028
Kurzbeschreibung:
Our project's goal is to contribute to the pragmatic modeling of non-default Common Ground (CG) updates by studying the specific characteristics of Mirativity Markers (MMs) in Romance from a comparative perspective. MMs express linguistically that a newly incoming of salient proposition p is unexprected, surprising or exceeding previous expectations. Building on the view of mirative marking as a non-default CG update, we suggest to further distinguish different types of mirative update pathways, based on a more differentiated analysis of (un)expectedness as an epistemic and social stance of speakers and hearers.