The mirative and evidentiality

By Scott DeLancey. 2001

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A semantic account of mirative evidentials (2013, background): “…MEs, E is referenced in two types of content, with the type of interpretation conditioned by whether or not the speaker has recently learned that p. DeLancey (2001) and others have observed that some types of at-issue content are more likely to trigger the mirative interpretations of MEs: ps…”
Epistemics in social interaction (2018, background): “Speakers in various languages can index their commitment to (including certainty of) what they are proposing they ‘know’, through epistemic modalities and evidentialities (e.g. Aikhenvald, 2004; Chafe and Nichols, 1986; Delancey, 2001; Lyons, 1977).”
Evidentiality and interrogativity (2017, background): “Several scholars have thus proposed that egophoric markers are a special evidential category of ‘ego’ evidentiality, specifying that one knows about an event or situation from personal experience or agentive participation (DeLancey, 2001:372; Garrett, 2001:102; Tournadre, 2008:284).”
Functional convergence in the tense, evidentiality and aspectual systems of Quechua Spanish bilinguals (2004, background): “In addition to these distinctions, verbal forms with imperfective morphology in Spanish may be used to indicate information that is new or unexpected to the speaker, as in the case of mirative forms, widely documented for Balkan languages and also for Tibetan and Northwestern American Native languag”