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