Mirativity, initially proposed by Scott DeLancey, is a grammatical category in a language, independent of evidentiality, which encodes the speaker's surprise or the unpreparedness of their mind.
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However, Lazard (1999) and Hill (2012) question the validity of this category, Lazard finding that the category cannot be distinguished from a mediative, and Hill finding the evidence given by DeLancey and by Aikhenvald (2004) either incorrect or insufficient.