I may have missed it but I haven't seen Scott DeLancey's recent 'Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information' - Linguistic Typology 1 (1997), 33-52 - being mentioned yet. ***** Jan Nuyts phone: 32/3/820.27.73 University of Antwerp fax: 32/3/820.27.62 Linguistics email: nuyts at uia.ua.ac.be Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk - Belgium