title: How to Express Surprise without Saying “I’m Surprised” in Latin
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metadata.value: Zheltova, Elena V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:45:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:45:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Elena V. Zheltova. How to Express Surprise without Saying “I’m Surprised” in Latin. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(2), 228–240.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15254
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper focuses on the ways of expressing mirative semantics in the Latin language. Mirativity
  is a grammatical category which expresses the speaker’s unprepared mind, a deferred
  realization of a situation and concomitant surprise. These values can be conveyed by both
  lexical and grammatical means. The paper analyses only grammatical phenomena, without
  taking into consideration any lexical devices (such as the verb (ad)mirari), and shows that in
  addition to the basic meanings of time, mood etc. these grammatical phenomena, in certain
  contexts, express the semantics of abruptness and surprise. Since their primary meaning is not
  mirative and appears as a “side effect”, they should be called mirative strategies rather than miratives
  stricto sensu. Such strategies may be reflected through morphological categories of time
  and mood (e.g. Praesens coniunctivi, Futurum indicativi, Imperfectum indicativi), auxiliaries
  (particles, conjunctions) or syntactic constructions (Accusativus exclamationis, Infinitivus indignantis).
  Their mirative meaning is contextually conditioned and in some cases is only possible
  in interaction with other grammatical categories (verbal person, number, etc.). The study
  investigates pragmatic and stylistic functions of these phenomena and shows that the choice
  of a strategy in some cases is directly related to the genre of work and the style of speech. The
  genre distribution of mirative strategies we suggested allows us to consider them not only as
  linguistic entities to express modal meanings, but also as a stylistic device.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mirativity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: surprise
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: unprepared mind
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: deferred realization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Accusativus exclamationis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Infinitivus indignantis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Сum inversum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: How to Express Surprise without Saying “I’m Surprised” in Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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