Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

Disconfirmational MICA in surprise questions (and some notes on concessivity)

Alda Mari

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Through the study of the particle MICA in Italian, this paper addresses the question of mirativity in the broader context of future and questions. It achieves three main results: (i) it shows that MICA is not a common ground management device; it is a particle that manipulates inferences rather than anchoring to discourse participants, patterning with disconfirmational evidentials cross-linguistically. (ii) it proposes that semantic and pragmatic composition can interact and do not proceed independently, and (iii) it establishes a new connection between mirativity and concessivity.

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halshs-05475980 , version 1 (25-01-2026)

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Alda Mari. Disconfirmational MICA in surprise questions (and some notes on concessivity). Susana Rodriguez Rosique. Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads. Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages, 389, De Gruyter, pp.39-60, 2025, Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 9783111386485. ⟨10.1515/9783111386683-003⟩. ⟨halshs-05475980⟩
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