Indirect Evidentiality ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/IndirectEvidentiality


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      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Evidentiality Property
                              |_ Indirect Evidentiality

Definition:

IndirectEvidentiality, also called reported, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression from a source other than by experiencing the situation directly [Palmer 2001, 40].



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Language Code: wyb Palmer refers the indirect evidential as the 'reported' or 'linguistic evidential'
2009-06-04 13:28:07
ŋindu-dhangirambiyi
you-NOM-INDEVDsick-PST
You are said to have been sick

References:
Palmer (2001:36) FROM Donaldson (1980)


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