> Doug Dee wrote:
> >> Well, I was reading more of Describing Morphosyntax, and I'm almost sure
> I
> >> read a bit about a language grammaticalizing "contrary to expectations"
> and
> >> "according to expectations" as verbal inflections, and not just verbs on
> their
> >> own.
> >>
> >>But now I can't find it. I thought I saw it near the section on
> miratives,
> but
> >>it appears to have vanished entirely.
> >
> >It's on page 255, in section 9.6:
> >
> >". . . in many languages there is a distinction between the expression of
> >information that is surprising versus that which is unsurprising or
> expected."
>
> No, that's not the bit I remember... I read, appended to an example,
> something
> like what I wrote, but it had the name of the language that did it, and it
> may
> have listed the actual morphemes.
>
> It's entirely possible it could be an invention of my unfevered brain...
> (Like
> the time my teacher asked us why the Mariner shot the Albatross, which left
> me
> confused, because I had read in at least an entire extra stanza about
> that...)
>
>
> *Muke!
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