Mirativity and exclamatives in functional discourse grammar: evidence from Spanish

Abstract

This paper is a critical evaluation of the FDG claim that Mirativity is a Basic Illocution (cf. e.g. Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2008). The view presented here is that Mirativity is a semantic concept, while "Mirative Illocution" is in fact Exclamative Illocution. On the basis of data from Ecuadorian Highland Spanish, which has both a grammaticalized Mirative and a grammaticalized Exclamative, it is shown that there are a number of systematic differences between Mirative and Exclamative utterances. The paper ends with an alternative proposal of how to account for these two concepts within FDG.

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