Re: comment: four-participants (on-topic, even! but long)

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."

Doug

In a message dated 7/10/2002 9:25:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
alrivera@ALUMNI.SOUTHERN.EDU writes:


> 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.
>